Director
Leslie has been the Center Director and teacher for Music Together^® of Summit and Chatham for over 20 years and Director of the Montclair MT family for the past 10 years! She is a singer songwriter and played jazz vibes for many years. Her songs have been recorded by various recording artists and the television show Fame. Leslie has lived in Montclair for 30 years and has a daughter Lisa and son, Julian, who is a Music Together of Montclair Graduate!

Teacher
Christine has owned a successful business in Bloomfield for the past 20 years and has now made the decision to semi-retire...and follow her true passion for Children and Music. Christine has been a Music Together mom for 8 years, and was immediately drawn to the idea of leading a class of children through their first musical experiences. She is a natural leader, with a gift for working with children. Chris lives in North Caldwell with her husband, Bob, and their two sons, Luke and Sam.

Teacher
Lynne holds a BFA in acting from  Rutgers University and has earned Music Together Certification level 1. During her career as an actress, she performed in voice-overs, theater and television. Lynne grew up in a family centered around education and the performing arts, and when she was introduced to Music Together first as a mom, then as a teacher, it felt to her as if all paths in her life had magically led her to this point!  Lynne lives with her musical children Isaac and Maya and her husband Bruce in Cedar Grove. When shes not teaching Music Together, Lynne can often be found performing at children's birthday parties.

Laura is a vocalist, dancer and has studied voice and vocal performance at the New School as well as NYU. She has performed in both fields locally and has experience in all aspects of the theater. She loves to generate physical and musical responses in her children, both MT veterans, and is currently studying piano, much to their delight! She also holds a BS in Foreign Service and an MBA. She is fluent in Spanish as well. Laura has been teaching Music Together for many years and loves making music with our families!

Graduating from college as a vocal performance major, Jessica has recently been working as a Reading Recovery teacher for first grade. She has many years of classroom teaching experience. Last year, her life changed when she introduced her third baby to Music Together. It was the first class for both of them, and her entire family has benefited from the experience. Jessica loves to share a love of music with other families so that they, too, can find a way to incorporate music into their everyday lives.

Bryce has a range of experience teaching instrumental and general music. For the last two years, Bryce taught private lessons for the Count Basie Center for the Arts, group instrumental classes for Wharton Arts: Paterson Music Project, and led professional development for music teachers in Newark Public Schools through NJPAC Arts Education. Bryce's training in early childhood education includes Music Together and Wolf Trap arts-integration (Pre-K classrooms). Bryce's is designing and teaching general music curriculum for 1st and 2nd grades at John P Holland Charter School. While cello is his primary instrument, Bryce also plays violin, guitar, and double bass.

Carolyn Dempsey is originally from Nebraska, but left the midwest to attend the College of William and Mary, earning a degree in Russian and Spanish. She moved to New York to study theatre, and worked as an actress and singer for ten years. One of her "day jobs" was teaching children's music programs in the city and entertaining at birthday parties. Carolyn plays guitar, she is an avid tennis player, baker, and enjoys making music with her two young sons and daughter!