Jackie Freimor has been performing as a singer/guitarist since she was a child, and she played her first professional gig at age 15. She is also a self-taught pianist, and for a time she played the lute and the viola da gamba. Most recently, she was the rhythm guitar player and backup vocalist in a Manhattan-based alternative rock band. Jackie first experienced Music Together when she enrolled her daughter in the program, and she is always eager to share her and her daughter's love of the program with other families. Jackie began her first semester as a licensed Music Together center director in fall 2005 and was awarded Music Together Certification Level I status in December 2009.

Kathryn Kitt Aldous is a lyric soprano who performs in various venues around New York City. She also has a strong interest in musical theater and has given concerts of theater songs and performed in a number of operettas and musical comedies. Kathryn first came to Music Together as a mom with her son Andrew, and she is now the proud mother of John and Madeleine. This is her fifth year as a Music Together teacher. Kathryn was awarded Music Together Certification Level I status in August 2006.

Jill Geddes began her professional career at eighteen as a singer and actress touring in Evita as Peron's Mistress. Her extensive credits include such roles as Cinderella on tour in Into the Woods as well as Fantine in the national tour of Les Miserables. Jill continues to perform regularly at concerts, including the "New Voices" series at Symphony Space and the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. As an undergraduate at Indiana University, she studied music as a voice major. She was introduced to Music Together 10 years ago when she took her daughter to class, and she loved it so much that she became a teacher. She was awarded Music Together Certification Level I status in August 2009. She has been teaching for other Music Together centers for more than 2 years and will begin teaching for Over the Moon Music in January 2010.

Karen Hamlin has been singing and performing since she was a child. She has studied flute and piano and has sung in numerous choruses, including a traveling a cappella singing group. Karen’s background is in developmental psychology, and she has worked as an educator for many years. She has taught all ages, from infant to adult, and worked for several years as a kindergarten teacher. Karen is now the doting mom to Sophie, Violet, and Asa. She came to Music Together as a parent and loved it so much she had to become a teacher!

Mimi LaValley has her roots in Pennsylvania and North Carolina and is a multi-instrumentalist and performer of traditional Appalachian string-band music. Her Brooklyn-based band, The Calamity Janes, are known for their original and unique arrangements of folk, blues, gospel, country-bluegrass and old-time songs featuring harmonic singing and danceable rhythm. In addition to traditional and folk music, Mimi loves rock, soul, and funk. She is also a childcare provider and guitar teacher, and when not playing music or spending time with kids, she can usually be found swing dancing. She will begin teaching for Over the Moon Music in summer 2010.

Kelli Lewis has been singing and writing music since her first composition at age 5. She grew up performing in theatrical productions and concerts and went on to receive a BFA in musical theater from Millikin University. In addition to her work in musical theater, Kelli has sung just about every style of music, and she especially enjoyed her years as lead singer of her rock band. Most recently, she spent 6 years touring the country and recording with professional vocal jazz ensemble Pieces of 8. With Pieces of 8, Kelli had the opportunity to teach various aspects of music to students of all ages from elementary to high school and presented master classes at colleges across the country. She fell in love with the Music Together program while attending her first semester with her daughter, Sophie, and she knew she wanted to share the experience, as a teacher, with other families.

As an actor/singer/dancer, Gabrielle Mason performed locally at Westchester Broadway Theatre and Paper Mill Playhouse; Off-Broadway; and at regional theatres across the country. She majored in music at Wesleyan University--training classically and dabbling in South Indian singing--and has danced and choreographed extensively. Gabrielle came to Music Together as a mom and couldn't bear to leave when her son Zachary, now seven and an excellent "at-home teaching advisor," graduated to other musical endeavors. She believes that everyone deserves the joy of singing, swaying, and bopping together and that playing musically with our children is a lifelong gift. This will be Gabrielle's fourth year of teaching, and she's delighted to share song, dance, guitar, warmth, and wackiness with returning friends and new families.

Heather Petrie has been actively teaching Music Together in Connecticut for the past year, and she loves it so much that she wanted to come teach in New York as well! She is an opera singer, is a member of several professional choirs, and plays bass drum in a Scottish bagpipe band. In past years she has also studied belly dancing, Balinese gamelan, and West African drumming; you never know what might pop up in her classes!

Born into a musical family, Teana Pinela (also known as Alkebulan) began her musical training at a very early age. She was a featured performer on Paul Simon’s album "Songs From The Capeman" and has toured both nationally and internationally with Freedom Williams, formerly of the 90s dance group C&C Music Factory. As a solo singer/songwriter, she also has performed at various venues throughout New York City, such as CBGB, SOB's, and Joe’s Pub. In the summer of 2006 Alkebulan made it to No. 2 on the Billboard Dance Chart with her song “Pride (In Your Soul),” and a few months later the video for her single “Not Love @ First Sight” was on regular rotation on the B.E.T. Jazz program Soul Sessions. In 2007 the remix version of “Not Love @ First Sight," featuring Sheik Louch from the Lox, made it onto various well known mix-tape CDs produced by the likes of DJ Green Lantern and DJ Envy, as well as Hot 97’s Rush Hour Volume O and Hot 97’s Blazing Hip-Hop/R&B 2007 CD. In April 2008 Alkebulan was a featured vocalist in Paul Simon's revival concert of his Broadway production The Capeman at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She joined Mr. Simon once again on stage for the grand reopening celebration of the newly renovated Beacon Theater. She was also brought on board to collaborate on a few songs for the soundtrack of the independent documentary HavanaYork, which features The Last Poets, Supa Nova Slom, The Aleems, and many other Hip Hop luminaries and which will be released in 2010. She is currently working on a solo five-song EP dedicated to the old Motown and Soul era, due to be released in spring 2010. She will begin teaching for Over the Moon Music in summer 2010.

A classically trained pianist and soprano, Ellen Spencer has enjoyed music in one form or another every day of her life. Ellen has been a church pianist and has directed both adult and children’s choirs. In addition to Music Together, Ellen teaches piano. Originally from the Boston area, Ellen and her family live in South Salem. Her daughter Tess is in college in Boston, and her daughter Juliet studies the flute. Ellen, along with Beach Boy Brian Wilson, encourages everyone to "add some music to your day." She was awarded Music Together Certification Level I status in March 2007.