Our teachers are passionate about music and the development of young children.
They create a fun, informal, social setting that spurs engagement and supports each child's musical development.
Our teachers have successfully completed the Music Together® teaching workshop developed by the Center for Music and Young Children, Princeton, New Jersey.
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Jessica Kligman, Director
Jessica established Music Together of Highland Park/Edison LLC in the fall of 2001 with one class offered per week. The program has grown to offer classes on several days and times, and Jessica looks forward to further expansion. She is certified by the State of New Jersey as a teacher of music for grades K-12. In addition to teaching Music Together, Jessica taught preschool through 8th grade for six years at two Shalom Torah Academy campuses, in Twin Rivers and in Morganville, NJ. She currently teaches music at Piscataway Regional Day School and at Bright Beginnings Learning Center, working with students ages 5-21 with special needs. She earned a B.A. in Music (voice) from California State University, Northridge.
Jessica discovered Music Together while searching for a parent-child program for her infant daughter. She is thrilled to bring The Joy of Family Music® to the families in and near Highland Park.
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Chien-Ju Lin
Chien-Ju Lin began teaching Music Together in 2005. She grew up enjoying music and singing in choirs. Since finishing her graduate school in library science from Rutgers, she has been working as a Children’s Librarian for 8 years now. Chien-Ju counducts numerous babies’ rhyme times, toddler’s music times and children’s story times, bringing music into her library programs to interact with children and families. When her baby was born in 2008, Chien-Ju started to look around for a Music Together class so she could bring music to her baby girl’s life, too. Since then, Chien-Ju and her baby have been enjoying wonderful musical experiences at Music Together of Highland Park/Edison with Jessica. Chien-Ju trained to teach Music Together in 2004 and taught from 2005-2008. She is very excited to have the opportunity to teach again and share the joy of making music together!
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Joyce Kay
Joyce has been a beloved Music Together teacher at the Music Together Princeton Lab School for many years. She holds a B.M. in Music Theory from University of Cincinnati College--Conservatory of Music and has her Music Together Certification Level I. Joyce plays classical, pop, and jazz piano as well as guitar. The children in her classes delight in her piano, guitar and slide-whistle playing in class. Joyce also teaches private piano as well as preschool music classes and is the musical director for several NJ children’s theater companies.
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