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About Jill Janzen
Director, Music Together Fresno-Clovis
 
 
 
MUSIC TOGETHER FRESNO-CLOVIS is operated by Jill Janzen. Originally a Fresno resident, Jill Janzen is a registered Music Together® teacher trained in Seattle, Washington, by Dr. Lili Levinowitz. Ms. Janzen has taught Music Together since 2006 in Bologna, Italy, while also teaching international children the English language through song, movement, games, and storytelling. Prior to that, Ms. Janzen taught English to children and adults in Shimonoseki, Japan.

Jill Janzen’s music career includes vocal performances as a soloist, as well as chorally, in concert and in opera, in the USA, Europe, and Japan. Prior to her international work, Jill participated in opera workshops at California State University, Fresno, and performed with the Sierra Chamber Opera Company, as well as the Fresno Mennonite Children’s Choir.

Ms. Janzen also had roles in Fresno Lyric Opera Company’s productions of “Cavalleria rusticana” and "The Medium" as well as with the Townsend Opera Company in Modesto.
 

Ms. Janzen has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Theater from Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, and has studied voice with Roy Klassen and Miss Harriet Gill of Fresno, California, and Maestra Clothilde Ronchi of Bologna, Italy.

 

 

The History of Music Together®
 

Founded in 1987, Music Together is an international, research-based music and movement program for infants, toddlers and their adult caregivers , which began as an educational project at the Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, New Jersey.

 

Early childhood expert and composer, Mr. Kenneth Guilmartin is the founder of Music Together, and co-authored the program with Dr. Lili Levinowitz, one of this country’s leading researchers in early childhood music development. The program is based on the premise that all children are musical; that it is in fact as natural to be musical as it is to walk and to talk, that it is just as much of a birthright, and that all human beings have the same innate ability to learn music as they do to learn language and movement.