I decided I wanted to be a music teacher when I was just a kid, after watching a woman conduct a children's choir at church. Everyone in my family is musical, but most of them have "regular" day jobs. When I realized that a woman could conduct, and kids could sing in a choir, I was so intrigued! A few years later, when I began piano, I knew that teaching music was something I really wanted to do. I continued developing other creative skills as well -- fashion design, sewing, cooking, writing, travel, and theater. Teaching allows me the luxury of indulging my many creative whims -- I am hopelessly curious, and can take a class in whatever direction inspires me. I love that freedom. I also love teaching the youngest of students -- I begin teaching music to the three-year-old classes at Country Day. To watch those young artists grow and develop, to hear them when they use their own voice, is a delight and a blessing. I am so lucky to have spent the last 22 years teaching, full time, in San Diego.
Children, music, theater, fashion, food, anything that peaks my curiosity.
Finding new creative projects to do in the short-term. I am a commitment-phobe.
Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. Stanislavsky.
Dolley Madison. She grew up with a repressed, limited view of the world, and broke out of it, then created her own role in history and politics, using her abilities and inspiration.
Grace and humor under pressure.
Soprano for hire, party planner.
Songs, smells, colors, and the feeling of something in my hand.
I would teach them to sing a song, or how to wear their clothes better.