Susan is the owner of Musical Beginnings. She has been a licensed and practicing Kindermusik Educator since 1997 and has also taught piano for many years. She has 11 years experience teaching Special Education children ages 2 - 10 years in the public school system. She is the mother of two college-age boys. Susan has a background in piano, oboe, and choir. She has combined her love for children with her love and appreciation for music in her growing business.

Lori has taught private voice, Kindermusik, choir and musical theater classes since 2004 and loves the opportunity to expose students of all ages to many different aspects of music education. As a vocal performance and music education major in college, she performed in numerous concerts and musical theatre productions. Lori was a featured soloist with her college jazz band, lead singer in various local bands, and has performed in over 15 musical theater productions in the Portland area since 1989.  Lori lives in Vancouver with her husband Patrick and their 3 children.

Steve Jackson has been playing music actively for the last 20 years. He began taking lessons at age 7, and by 15 was studying guitar at the University of Texas. At age 19, he began studying at Central Washington University under classical musician and guitarist James Durkee and jazz vocalist Vijay Singh. Steve still performs locally with a variety of artists, including nationally acclaimed Christian group Hyper Static Union. He is passionate about music and enjoys helping others to have enriching musical experiences as well.

Kelly is a licensed Kindermusik educator who brings an artistic, creative and humorous approach to the Kindermusik class. She has been working 10+ years with children, ages newborn to 10 years, in before-and-after school programs, and developed and supervised curriculum for art activities, plays and talent shows. She has a degree in Art and studied Early Childhood Education. Kelly likes to spend each day singing and dancing with her two daughters, as if life were a musical.

Kattie has been teaching piano since 2003.  She graduated from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music with a Diploma in Piano Performance in June of 2009. She is currently working on her LRSM,  (Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music)  studying under Dr. Lena Vozheiko-Wheaton. Kattie maintains a full schedule of 50 plus students a week. 
 
In her free time, Kattie enjoys square dancing, hiking, and practicing her second instrument, the violin.
 
She was married to Hunter Clark on June 4th 2010 and enjoys accompanying her husband who is a violinist. He plays with the Corban University and Clark College orchestras.

Sarah has been playing violin for 10 years and viola for 8 years. She also plays piano.

Throughout her music education she has at attended Suzuki camp, YMA camp and was a part of the Metropolitian Youth Symphony in Portland, OR. Viola is her main instrument which she plays in the Clark College Orchestra.

Music is a very important part of Sarah's life.

Heidi Ames is equally proficient in piano and voice, having begun her music studies at age 13 in Tigard, Oregon. She has performed throughout the United States, the Caribbean and in Europe.

Ms. Ames has attended Johanna Meier Opera Theater Institute, Oberlin Piano Institute, Colorado College Vocal Arts Institute, Charles University in Prague, and completed an apprenticeship in opera accompaniment at The International Institute of Vocal Arts in Chiari, Italy. While living in Italy, she held the position of Assistant Musical Director for the Teatro Comunale in Bolzano for the 2004/2005 season. She recently completed her M.M. in vocal performance at The University of Montana, where she performed the title role in Puccini's Suor Angelica and was a soloist in Bach’s Magnificat. In 2008, she won a singing competition that awarded her the opportunity to perform in a star-studded gala accompanied by Grammy winner David Foster. Ms. Ames has appeared as a guest soloist with the Oregon and Mid-Columbia Sinfoniettas as well as performing operatic arias with the Columbia Gorge Symphony.

With over 10 years of experience as a music teacher, Ms. Ames enjoys teaching children and adults of all ages and abilities and in all musical styles. Her varied and interesting career has given her a unique, holistic approach to teaching, focusing on each student’s individual strengths and learning styles while instilling a sense of responsibility in each student to become his or her own musician.

Corey has taught and directed theatre for youth for over 15 years. As a teenager he created Klamath Teen Theatre in Klamath Falls, Oregon and was also guest teaching after-school programs for local elementary and middle schools with the Ross Ragland Theater and Linkville Playhouse. He went on to work on movie sets as a Production Assistant in Hollywood.

After completing his BA in Theatre for Youth at The Evergreen State College, Corey worked for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland Children’s Theatre and ran his own puppetry company “steppuP Puppets”. He has also worked for The Helen Hayes Theatre Awards in Washington DC, Blue Sky Puppet Theatre in Maryland, and Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp in Steamboat Springs Colorado. While working for Blue Sky Puppets he was honored to perform for the Obama Administrations’ Children’s Inaugural Ball.

Corey believes in the power of mentoring, loves puppetry, plays the drums, guitar and banjo, and also plays a clown by the name of Jelly Beans for Clowns Unlimited, PDX.

Emily graduated from University of Oregon with a Master in Music in vocal performance in September 2008 and received her undergraduate degree from Pacific Lutheran University with a Bachelor of Musical Arts degree in vocal performance with a minor in psychology in 2006.  She is now back in Camas, WA, near her parents where she divides her life between teaching private voice and piano lessons, singing in the community, and her dogs.

Hunter has been playing violin for 17 years and piano for 16 years. He attended Corban University and is currently playing with the Clark College Orchestra. He played in the Corban University Chamber Orchestra in Salem, OR, for two years and played has in the Metropolitan Youth Symphony in Portland, OR, as well.