Nancy brings 20 years of early childhood music teaching experience to her Musikgarten classroom.  Prior to extensive studies in music education methods, Nancy majored in piano performance, notably at Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama under the Hodges and Howard Piano Duo Team, in the legacy of Rhosina Levine of the Juilliard School, and later at New Jersey State University, where she received the Bachelor of Arts degree in piano.  She received certification in Orff-Schulwerk through Columbia University in New York, Dalcroze Eurhythmics with Robert Abramson through Manhattan School of Music in New York, and Kodaly with Susan Senft through Seattle Pacific University. She has also completed Teacher Training courses in High-Scope Movement with Phyllis Weikert and Drum Circle Facilitation with Arthur Hull.  It was in 1985 at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, that Nancy met America's foremost pioneer and authority in early childhood education, Dr. Lorna Lutz Heyge, with whom Nancy completed Kindermusik and Musikgarten teacher training.  After settling in Seattle in 1988 with her husband and four children, Nancy founded Seattle's first early childhood music school, which offered the Kindermusik program for 15 years.  In 2001, Musikgarten became the curriculum of choice. Nancy has studied choral conducting with Dr. Geoffrey Boers at University of Washington, and was Director of Sun Hak International Children's Choir from 1994 to 2008.