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Testimonials:
"My son has grown by leaps and bounds the last four months.
I needed an activity both he and I could positively do together and Kindermusik has been just that. He and I interact much
better together since we started. Thank you for a fabulous job. He loves his class, loves the music activities at home, and
in general is a happier toddler. Thank you very much!
Lois (mother of 2 yr-old
Dallin)
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Melissa
DiGrazio (Owner/Director, Kindermusik®, keyboards & dance) - Miss Melissa
started dancing at the age of 5 and continued her training studying ballet, tap, and jazz at Kathleen Academy of Dance in
Hillsborough, N.J. There she was trained to teach the 3-6 year old program as well as tap and jazz classes for children and
adults. Other dance training includes classes at Broadway Dance Center in NYC and workshops throughout NJ, VA, and NY. Throughout
her childhood, she had particpiated in school choirs, dance performances, and musicals. Miss Melissa graduated from Piscataway
High School in 1993 with honors and was part of the award winning Concert Choir as well as lead roles of Peggy Sawyer in "42nd
Street" and Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz." In July 1998 she received her Kindermusik certification and began
teaching the following fall. She graduated Cum Laude from Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J.in May 1999 with a B.A. in Music.
She has been working "for" children for the past 14 years with roles of camp counselor and director, after-school
teacher, dance teacher, pre-school music teacher, and substitute. She is a member of the Charlottesville Music Teachers Association
and the Blue Ridge Partnership for Kindermusik Educators and is currently the music teacher at Millstone of
Ivy Preschool, Bright Beginnings (all 3 locations), and Greene County Child Care Center. She continues her dance training
with classes including BalletTone and Hawaiian Hula. She continues her Kindermusik education yearly at the Kindermusik International
Conventions which are held throughout the US each fall. She is highly involved with "Camp Happy Times", a one-week
summer camp for children with cancer, and has been a counselor there since 1998. Miss Melissa and her daughter Meredith live
in Lake Monticello.
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Katrina Gosdin Kuhn (dance & theater) - Miss Katrina's
dance training began at Kathy's Arts Studio and the South Arkansas Ballet Academy in Magnolia, A.R. In high school, she was
an active member of the school's and the state's PRIDE teams. She was also the dance captain of the band's colorguard. Throughout
college, she performed and directed nemerous plays and musicals as well as directed for SAU's Summer Children's Theatre. She
also choreographed for the Academic Enrichment for the Gifted in the summer of 1998. Katrina opened Footlights Performing
Arts Studio in Camden, A.R. after graduation and taught dance, theater, and pageant prep classes. In the fall of 2002, Katrina
developed a dance program for the Hot Springs School District's 6th-12th grade Visual and Performing Arts Academy. All aspects
of dance were presented from history to performance. She also re-established the "T-Stepper" dance team at Hot Springs.
Miss Katrina and her husband Karl live in Charlottesville and work for UVA. Their son Kason was born in August 2007.
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Rebecca Jones (Kindermusik®, Intro to Piano, & keyboards) - Miss Rebecca is a graduate of UVA with a major in Music and finished her master's in Elementary Education. She
currently teaches at Henley Middle School in Charlottesville. She is a performer in the African Music and Dancing Ensemble
at UVA. In the past, Miss Rebecca had worked in a local child care center and taught piano lessons for the past 3 years. During
her childhood, she has taken piano for 17 years as well as dance for 10 years and performed in 8 dinner theatre productions
on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Rebecca received her Kindermusik license and certification in December of 2005. Miss Rebecca
and husband Gary live at Lake Monticello.
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Loren Faruque
(Keyboards, Intro to Piano) - Miss Loren has been composing and playing since early childhood starting with
the organ and has taken private lessons in flute, violin, guitar, and piano. Piano became her primary instrument as she entered
and graduated from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa N.C. Through the years she has performed in orchestras, choirs, and
churches and currently plays piano for South River Methodist Church. She also has taught piano for many years privately in
New York, Indiana, and here in Charlottesville. She is very involved in a home-school group where she co-leads students in
reenacting historical events and other cultures through the use of fine arts and music. Miss Loren has held the field of Music
Theory close to her heart and fascinated by it's therapeutic potential. She has extended her love of music to all her children,
including her daughter who is currently attending Berkley College of Music in Boston.
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