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Jane Singhal
holds a Bachelor of Arts in music from
Yale and a master’s degree in Russian Studies from Princeton. A violin student
of Kikuei Ikeda of the Tokyo String Quartet and Oistrakh pupils Dana and Yuri
Mazurkevich, Ms. Singhal was concertmistress of the Midwest Chamber Orchestra
and violinist and music director for Interlude Chamber Ensemble in New Jersey.
Also a vocalist and music instructor, Ms. Singhal devotes her time to teaching
children and impressing upon parents the need for enriching and engaging music
materials at home and in the schools. She is the author of Applause, a
violin method and repertoire series, and Move Over, Mozart, an elementary
music curriculum, as well as articles on the importance of skills-based music
instruction. Ms. Singhal lives in Belmont, California with her husband and two
daughters in what one of her youngest students has dubbed "The Singing
House". Email: jsinghal@singinghouse.com Daria Kingman, an art teacher and free-lance commercial artist since 1973, is currently the art specialist at Hilltop Elementary School in Mendham, New Jersey. Ms. Kingman’s comprehensive art program gives young students the technical and observational skills they need to appreciate and create art in any media—from pastels to computers. As president of the county chapter of the Art Educators of New Jersey, she carries her passion for teaching and children outside the classroom, organizing numerous exhibits of children’s art work throughout the year. Ms. Kingman resides in the New Jersey countryside, where she tends a large vegetable garden, fish pond and many flower beds and pursues biking, hiking, skiing and flying as well as raising two children—her greatest projects. |