Meet the Teachers of Sounds Good Westchester

Sounds Good teachers come from all sorts of backgrounds, but we’re united by a common passion: sharing the joy of music with children and families in Westchester! We have all successfully completed the intensive Music Together Teacher Training and have apprenticed with a mentor teacher. Throughout each year, we keep skills fresh through workshops and advanced trainings.

 

 

photo Karen Hamlin

Karen thinks she has the best job in the world! She came to Music Together in 2001 as a parent and loved it so much she had to become a teacher. She's been teaching Music Together since 2007, was awarded Music Together Certification Level I in 2010, and founded Sounds Good Westchester in 2015. Karen has been singing and performing since she was a child and has sung in numerous choruses, including a traveling a cappella singing group. Karen received a BA magna cum laude in psychology from Yale University and a master's degree in early childhood and elementary education from UCLA. She has taught all ages, from infant to adult, and she loves to bring her guitar, flute, and other instruments into the classroom. Karen is mom to Sophie, Violet, and Asa.

 

 

     
photo Jamie Washington

Jamie began her Music Together journey under the direction of Dr. Lili Levinowitz (a co-founder of Music Together!) while attending Rowan University and quickly fell in love with teaching music to children of all ages. She graduated with an undergraduate degree in Vocal Music Education in 2016 and moved to NYC to pursue her dream of teaching music in the city. Jamie has been a public elementary school music teacher in the Bronx for the past seven years and has privately taught voice, piano, music theory, and guitar lessons for the past fifteen years. In 2020, Jamie and her husband Travis founded a nonprofit organization, Journey to Harmony, which supplied food/resources to their community and formed the Bronx's first district-wide elementary choir. She continued to grow her interest in music and its impact on learning and received her Master's degree in Educational Psychology in 2021. Jamie was introduced to Sounds Good Westchester when she began attending classes with her daughter Lyrica, and she loves making Music Together with the Sounds Good families!

     
photo Jean Young

Jean taught Music Together® classes in Larchmont and throughout Westchester for over 22 years and directed Music Along the Sound for eleven years. She was the music specialist at Temple Emanu-El Nursery School in Manhattan for 30 years, was musical director of the Chatsworth Avenue School Musical, and she directed the children's choir at Community Unitarian Church. Jean produced Adirondack Adventure, her first CD of original songs, in 2013. She started the Generations classes at Willow Towers eighteen years ago. Jean is proud grandmother to Aria and Autumn. 

     
photo Sarah Goss

Sarah first found Music Together in Brooklyn when her son was tiny, and it’s hard to say which one of them loves it most! She has been a professional harpist and harp teacher since completing her music degree in the UK last century and has worked all over the planet. She was resident harpist in Dubai at the first 7-star hotel in the world and set up a harp school in Bangkok for a Thai Princess. She has sailed most of the seven seas performing on cruise ships and had a wonderful job playing to patients and staff in various San Francisco hospitals. Now settled in Greenwich, she, along with her son Theo, enjoyed enough incredible Music Together teachers to be inspired to become a teacher herself!

     
photo Danielle Murphy-Guillet

Danielle Murphy-Guillet brings over 20 years of experience in the birth and postpartum world and is grateful to be at the helm of Tree of Life Healing Arts. She has cultivated a deep respect for the innate wisdom and healing ability of the body, mind and spirit.  As a mother of three, she brings a rich depth of understanding to each and every client she serves. ​Her love and study of traditional healing arts combined with an educational background in biology offers an informed and intuitive approach. Danielle is a Lamaze Childbirth Educator, Lactation Counselor, Newborn Care Educator, Birth and Postpartum Doula, Yoga Teacher and Licensed Massage Therapist.