Our Teachers

photo Bee Fortin, director

Bee has been a Music Together® trained and registered teacher since 2001 and the director of Music Together of Belmont since 2002. Before she learned about Music Together, Bee worked for nine years as a classroom teacher with preschoolers of all ages. She has also been designing and implementing music enrichment programs in preschools since 2000. Bee studies voice, plays the guitar and the keyboard, and is trained in music theory and music improvisation skills. She has studied at the Longy School of Music, where she completed the level one certification in the Dalcroze method of music education. Bee is taking the 2010-2011 year off from directing, but will have a presence in a teaching and consulting role.

photo Lenka Zbruz, acting director

Lenka loves making music more than anything else. Since early childhood she has always been involved in one musical project or another - singing in choirs, playing the piano and the guitar. She got to know and grew to love the Music Together program, when she worked as a nanny and brought different children in her care to classes. She became a Music Together trained and registered teacher in 2007 and taught with her own son in her lap for 2 years. She has found that not only is she able to see the music through the eyes of the children thanks to this, but also can better relate to the grown ups in class who have their hands full. Lenka's son Filip is now 4 years old and fluent in three languages -  Czech, English and the language of music. He is the living proof of how much a child who has been exposed to a rich musical environment on an ongoing basis will thrive in different areas of development. The Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, NJ, recently awarded Lenka Music Together Certification Level I status for outstanding achievement in teaching, musicianship, program philosophy, and parent education.

photo Laura Indigo

Laura is a Music Together trained and registered teacher as well as a Music Together mom, a musician and a massage therapist, and loves to be with children. She was trained at Oberlin Conservatory, and has used her training in many different areas including creating inter-disciplinary curriculum-based performance projects for kids, performing with orchestras and small ensembles, learning African and European folk dances, and exploring music and movement in groups and private lessons with a range of ages from children to adults, in schools, group homes, and private studio settings. Laura loves using many styles of music to deepen relationships with children and their families, and to have fun combining music and movement in daily life. Laura plays flute and ukelele, and includes these instruments in classes, as well as playing guitar and drums in her own 5 year old’s rock band at playtime. She has been teaching Music Together classes since 2006 and has recently been awarded Music Together Certfication Level I  status for outstanding achievement in teaching, musicianship, program philosophy, and parent education.

 

photo Vickie Livermore

Vickie Livermore is a Music Together mom. She loves working with children of all ages. Vickie taught elementary music in the Westborough Public Schools for 16 years. She became a Music Together trained and registered teacher in 2002 and feels fortunate to witness the joy and fascination music brings to the very young. Vickie believes all children enjoy music differently, so at every age level she tries toprovide a range of activities, from dancing around the room to sitting and singing quietly, to being silly together.  Vickie plays the piano, the guitar and recorder. She also teaches piano, and has accompanied choral groups and musical theater productions. She is certified in the Orff-Schulwerk approach to music education. At home, Vickie enjoys dancing with her 2 ½ year old son and playing piano duetswith her 8 ½ year old daughter.