All of our teachers are Registered Music Together® teachers. They are passionate about music and the development of children. Their goal is to create a fun, informal, social setting that promotes engagement and supports each child's musical development.
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Paul Godwin
Paul
Godwin (Director of Music Together of San Francisco)
is a composer, musician, and music teacher with 25 years experience. In
the role of parent and teacher, he expresses his passion for awakening
the innate skills of children by blending musical modeling with pure enjoyment.
He founded MT of SF in 2001 and continues to be actively involved in
the day-to-day operation of the program, selecting and mentoring teachers
and participating in parent education and support.
Paul has worked with
children in music at the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis
and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. He has composed for film, television
and interactive children's entertainment. In 2002, he composed the original
score for Tony Kushner's "Homebody/Kabul" in its West
Coast Premiere at Berkeley Rep and won the Bay Area Critics Circle
Award for Best Original Score for this work. Paul studied music and
theatre at Northwestern University and holds a B.A. from Berklee
College of Music in Boston. In 2004, Paul was certified in Orff Music,
Level One at Mills College, Oakland. He is the lead singer, keyboardist
and founder of The Sippy Cups, a Bay Area family-favorite rock
band.
Paul received his
Certification from Ken Guilmartin, founder of The Center for Music and
Young Children and Music Together, LLC.
A parent says: "Years ago I taught music to children and bring this up only to stress that I speak with authority when I say Paul is a gem and I appreciate the musicianship, sincerity and joy he brings to us each week." |
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Andrew Gomez
Andrew
Gomez
has been working with children for over 10 years and has a B.A. in Child
Psychology from the University of California, San Diego. From organizing
events at summer camps as a 16-year old to working for San Mateo County
teaching K-8 special education students, Andrew has acquired extensive
experience entertaining, nurturing, and enlightening youngsters, and now
devotes his time to aiding their musical development. Besides being a
Music Together teacher, he also teaches piano, guitar, drums, and choir
in the after-school music program, From The Heart Music. Blending
his love for athleticism and exotic music, Andrew has been involved in
Capoeira, an acrobatic Brazilian martial art/dance, for 6 years, and has
performed with Capoeira Mandinga of San Diego and Capoeira U.S.A.
of San Francisco in different festivals, fairs, and clubs. As a singer/songwriter/musician,
Andrew has released the internationally released, critically-acclaimed
rock album Glean as part of the band Echobrain and has opened for
such artists as Neil Young, Elvis Costello, and Willie Nelson. These days,
he still flexes his voice and musicianship in the San Francisco-based,
electro-rock act, Fast To The Center. |
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Bevin Fernandez
Bevin Fernandez was born and raised on the Peninsula in a music-loving family. She was lucky enough to get an early start in her creative endeavors. At the age of three, she started ballet classes with the South San Francisco Civic Ballet. Auditioning, rehearsing and performing with Bay Area companies was a highlight of her childhood that leant to a dedication and practice which continues to this day. She also began teaching ballet to young children by the time she was fifteen.
At the age of six, a special delivery which she thought was a treehouse, ended up being a piano. This was slightly to her dismay at the time but that quickly faded and led to mastering classical sonatas, blues pieces, and old standards to play for her grandmother. In the fourth grade, Bevin picked up the oboe to the surprise of the school's band director and throughout her school years played in award-winning symphonic bands and chamber ensembles with the oboe and also jazz band on the piano. After high school, Bevin left the Bay Area to attend college in Southern California. There, she received her B.A. in Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. Back in San Francisco, she was introduced to Music Together as a nanny and experienced first-hand what a special program it is. With a personal knowledge of the innumerable benefits of early exposure to creative and performing arts, Bevin is excited to share her knowledge, experience and love of it with her class. |
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Daveen DiGiacomo
Daveen DiGiacomo originally hails from the Heartland, where she
developed her love for music, playing piano at the age of seven. She
received her degree in music at San Francisco State University.
Previously, she taught an after school orchestra/band program for
Children’s Music Workshop in Los Angeles, in which she helped
coordinate 15 elementary schools to participate in a spring concert at
UCLA each year. Daveen also plays the accordion and performs
professionally in local dance/theatre companies, doing sound design and
composing. She is very passionate about the teachings and philosophies
behind Music Together.
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El Beh
El Beh’s parents tell her that she sang constantly long before she spoke. Since then, she has been working with kids and music all her life. Growing up with a mom teaching violin, piano and Orff-Schulwerk in the house, and a brother who has grown up to play violin and drums professionally, El was constantly surrounded by music and has been very grateful for the impact that early exposure has had on her life. Her very involved mother nurtured her early inclination to teach and spread the joy of music with others by entrusting her to teach small workshops and coach her younger students from the time El was nine years old! She also kept El intrigued by all aspects of performing arts with dance, theatre and voice classes all through her childhood.
El grew up in North County San Diego and started taking violin and piano lessons at 2 years old but over the years, cello became her primary instrument. She went on to play in numerous quartets and orchestras and won several solo competitions which led to scholarships that helped her move to the Bay Area to attend UC Berkeley. While at Cal , El continued to take music classes and played in the University Symphony and the West African Dance-Drumming Ensemble but in the end, she could not deny the call of the stage and received her BA in Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies. During her studies there, she also learned about Music Together through her mother who is a center director for MT in San Diego . She loved to visit her mom’s classes and got addicted to all the catchy, well-constructed songs and yearned for the day that she could teach such a comprehensive program.
Currently, El spends most of her time acting through out the Bay Area theatre community (including singing in many musicals and playing cello while acting) but has continued her teaching training primarily with Education Through Music through the Richard’s Institute of Music and Research. Through her training she has come to deeply appreciate programs like Music Together which provides a rich music environment and the emotional and mental stabilization necessary for children to grow and play their way to their full potential. And oh, what fun it is! She also volunteers teaching music at Edison Charter Academy and can’t wait to help you begin your joyful musical journey with your child. |
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Monica Fimbrez
Monica began teaching for Music Together after graduating from San Francisco State University with a BA in music in 2006 and has taught both in San Francisco as well as in Brooklyn, NY. Her career focus revolves around community building through children, preferably through the arts, and she loves how Music Together allows her to do just that. She is primarily a vocalist and songwriter, though often accompanies herself on guitar. Monica performs locally in the Latin & Folk genres, and has sang in venues ranging from local cafes to the Yerba Buena Center to Yoshi's, San Francisco. She has been honored to share the stage with artists such as John Calloway, John Santos, Jesus Diaz, David Flores and others. She has most recently been enjoying teaching at a non-profit community pre-school, and after teaching at MTSF in 2007, is now very much looking forward to getting back into Music Together. |
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