Kindermusik Instrucors


	Niambi S. Muhammad, licensed Kindermusik instructor, has 18 years experience in the field of Early Childhood Education. She completed her training in Early Childhood Education at Harris-Stowe State College in Saint Louis, Missouri. She was able to easily combine her passion for teaching and music together early on in her classroom and her community. Once a student of a visual and performing arts high school, she knows firsthand how music offers a great balance and wholeness to the child. She began writing songs to bring lessons alive in the classroom. She has produced mini-musical presentations with a few schools, with songs she wrote. Some of her hobbies are singing, songwriting, dancing, baking, storytelling and playing her guitar (which she lovingly calls--"la guitarra").


	Lucinda E. Ali, licensed Kindermusik instructor, chose to pursue a career in music while studying at DePaul School of Music in Chicago. There she blossomed with Mark Zinger, being a Fellowship student of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the DePaul Symphony Orchestra where she was the concertmaster, assistant concertmaster, and the concertmaster of the Opera Orchestra at DePaul. This afforded her the opportunity to get her Master of Music degree in violin performance on a full tuition scholarship. It was while at DePaul that Miss Lucinda discovered her love, gift, and talent for teaching children. She obtained her teacher training at the Chicago Suzuki Institute in Deerfield with Craig Timmerman, and later the same summer studied at Indiana University with MiMi Zwieg.