Staff & Teaching Artists

Staff

Scott Gelband
Executive Director

"Music makes my heart shine. It is who I am. And the ability to share my passion and create accessible music-learning opportunities for children makes my day - every day."

Sallie Baldwin
Education Director

"I am Music... I have taught men gentleness and peace; and I have led them onward to heroic deeds. I comfort the lonely, and I harmonize the discord of crowds. I am a necessary luxury to all men. I am Music."

—Allen C. Inman

Meaghan Leferink
Program Director

"Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body."

—Willa Cather, Song of the Lark

Evan Farnsworth
Community Outreach Director

"I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye."

—Kimya Dawson, I Like Giants

Mandy Goldberg
Program Coordinator / AmeriCorps Volunteer

"You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body."

—Clarice Lispector, Água Viva