Owner and Teaching Artist
Vashti Summervill
Vashti considers it her life’s work to build community through the arts and to facilitate creative experiences for people of all ability levels. She has an extensive performance as well as teaching/directing background. She founded and served as artistic director of Open Door Children’s Theatre (yes - this is a recycled name but she loves it!). Through her work with Open Door, she worked with several schools and other organizations to create and direct children’s performing arts programs. Most recently, Vashti was the music teacher for Sage International School. She also co-founded and co-directs the BIG (Boise Inter-generational) Choir.
Vashti is an experienced workshop presenter, community facilitator and music teacher consultant. She has presented for music educators at the Idaho Chapter of the American Orff-Schulwerk Asscociation and The San Diego International Music Teacher Symposium. She has facilitated community building workshops through music for the medical professionals at the Idaho VA as well as with the Boise Intergenerational Choir. In addition, she has been hired to consult with individual music teachers looking for new approaches in their classrooms and studios.
Vashti is an experienced workshop presenter, community facilitator and music teacher consultant. She has presented for music educators at the Idaho Chapter of the American Orff-Schulwerk Asscociation and The San Diego International Music Teacher Symposium. She has facilitated community building workshops through music for the medical professionals at the Idaho VA as well as with the Boise Intergenerational Choir. In addition, she has been hired to consult with individual music teachers looking for new approaches in their classrooms and studios.
Her professional performing regional musical theatre credits include Seattle’s Fifth Avenue Theatre, Seattle Civic Light Opera, Bumbershoot, Oregon Cabaret Theatre (Ashland, OR), Bigfork Summer Playhouse (Bigfork, MT) and Operafest! at Great Woods Music Festival in Norton, MA. She currently performs with the Chad and Vashti Summervill Band.
Vashti holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado and a Master’s of Music/Vocal Performance from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. She also has an Idaho Elementary Teaching Certificate with a K-12 Music Endorsement, an Orff Level 1 certificate, World Music Drumming Level 1, and is a trained Music Together teacher.
Vashti holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado and a Master’s of Music/Vocal Performance from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. She also has an Idaho Elementary Teaching Certificate with a K-12 Music Endorsement, an Orff Level 1 certificate, World Music Drumming Level 1, and is a trained Music Together teacher.
Guest Teaching Artist
Jennifer Myers
While Jennifer Myers began her movement exploration in the womb, her formal lessons began with ballet lessons at two. Turning her parents into crazy carpoolers, she also began studying flute with Eleanor Tibblas-Pennington at the age of eight. These studies continued at the University of Redlands, then on to the Talent Education Institute of Matsumoto, Japan where she earned a Teacher's Certificate with Toshio Takahashi and at Boise State University where she earned a Bachelor's of Music in Performance with Dr. Nicole Molumby. In 1999, when she and husband Jeff started a family, Jennifer began to research how best to include music in their daily life and discovered the Music Together program. After completing training she became a registered Music Together Teacher and licensed Center Director, joyfully sharing music with local families and her own family; sons Max and Vaughn along with her husband Jeff who studies music through osmosis. The Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, NJ, has awarded Jennifer Music Together Certification Level I status for outstanding achievement in teaching, musicianship, program philosophy, and parent education. Along with teaching and directing MTTV, she maintains a private flute studio and continues her study of both music and early childhood development.
While Jennifer Myers began her movement exploration in the womb, her formal lessons began with ballet lessons at two. Turning her parents into crazy carpoolers, she also began studying flute with Eleanor Tibblas-Pennington at the age of eight. These studies continued at the University of Redlands, then on to the Talent Education Institute of Matsumoto, Japan where she earned a Teacher's Certificate with Toshio Takahashi and at Boise State University where she earned a Bachelor's of Music in Performance with Dr. Nicole Molumby. In 1999, when she and husband Jeff started a family, Jennifer began to research how best to include music in their daily life and discovered the Music Together program. After completing training she became a registered Music Together Teacher and licensed Center Director, joyfully sharing music with local families and her own family; sons Max and Vaughn along with her husband Jeff who studies music through osmosis. The Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, NJ, has awarded Jennifer Music Together Certification Level I status for outstanding achievement in teaching, musicianship, program philosophy, and parent education. Along with teaching and directing MTTV, she maintains a private flute studio and continues her study of both music and early childhood development.