Teachers

Each of our teachers has successfully completed the training offered by Music Together® LLC and has a fundamental understanding of the Music Together approach to early childhood tonal and rhythmic development. Our teachers lead the class activities, and guide parents and caregivers through the rediscovery of the joy and educational value of informal music making with young children and their families.

 

First offered in 1987, Music Together pioneered the concept of a research-based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music curriculum that strongly emphasizes adult participation. Children learn most easily from their parents and primary caregivers. The basics of music can be most easily absorbed in a child’s earliest years. A child’s work is a child’s play and a child’s play is a child’s work….play is an integral part of our music making together.

 

It is thrilling to teach young children and adults when it matters most!

 

Teachers at Catskill Mountain Music Together are:

photo Renee Finkelstein
Renee has been devoted to community song-making for many years. She leads a community choir, and collaborates with local song-leaders bringing music into a variety of seasonal events. She believes that everyone is musical and that exposure to music gives young people a tool to draw upon for sustenance and joy throughout their lives.
     
photo Annie Internicola

Annie was first a Music Together mom with each of her three children from January 2005 - June 2011. She fell in love with the MT program and completed her teacher training in April 2011.
     
photo Adrien Finckel

Adrien holds a Bachelors of Music degree from Ithaca College.  She completed her teacher training for Music Together in April 2012, and Dalcroze Eurythmics in the summer of 2010. Raised by a family of musicians and music educators, music was an integral part of her daily life.  Adrien wants to share the joy of music making to all who seek it. 
     
photo Miranda Haydn

Miranda holds a BA in Liberal Arts from The New School for Social Research in New York City and Music Together Certification Level II. She first taught the MT program in NYC from 2000 - 2004. In 2004 Miranda moved to the Hudson Valley and continued teaching here before forming Catskill Mountain Music Together in April of 2006. CMMT continues to serve families in Kingston, Red Hook, and Saugerties.
     
photo Celeste Widom

Celeste holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Performance with a minor in psychology from SUNY New Paltz. Her interest in Music Therapy and teaching music lessons has naturally led her to the Music Together family, completing her training in December of 2017.