About Us

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Owner / Director 

Justine Chadly is the owner of In Harmony and has been a registered Music Together® teacher and licensed center director since 2003 when she couldn't find quality creative arts programs for her young son. She additionally offers a curriculum based on a contemporary combination of methods including but not limited to Orff, Kodaly, Jacques-Dalcroze, and Comprehensive Musicianship for private students, group classes, preschools, elementary students and more. As a guest speaker for local universities and conferences nationwide, Justine enjoys sharing the significance of and best practices for early childhood and early elementary music education. 

From San Francisco, her background includes musical theatre, vocal performance and dance. She holds a BA in music from UC Davis with an emphasis in vocal performance and an MA in Music Education with an emphasis in early childhood and special needs from San Francisco State University. She completed the certification course from the Smithsonian Folkways in World Music Pedagogy in the summer of 2015, the Music Together certification 1 course, and has performed with early music, Hindustani, Gamelan and jazz ensembles and is a member of the National Association for Music Education. Justine has composed for the Music Together and Rhythm Kids® international curricula including "Singing in Harmony" and "'Bout My Friends" and loves bringing people together with music. 

     
Tom

Tom is a professional drummer and studied at Shepherd College, Berklee College of Music and Drummer's Collective. He is versed in all musical styles and has studied classical, world percussion, African drumming and drum set. Tom studied with Malian master drummer Moussa Traore. He is the founder and developer of Rhythm Kids, a program that offers multicultural music, movement and drumming for children and schools and is being piloted worldwide through Music Together. Tom has composed, arranged, and recorded many of the Music Together and Rhythm Kids hit songs! Listen for his percussion, beat-boxing and vocals on your favorite worldwide recordings!  

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Naja credits her father for introducing her love of music. Who knew singing along with him to Simon and Garfunkel at age 4 would lead to a lifetime of musical passion and appreciation?

Naja, holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from Barry University and M.F.A in acting, writes and performs original music, and has performed in several professional productions. Here in San Francisco, she spends most of her time writing songs, playing guitar, piano, and ukulele!

Teacher Naja loves the play in her Music Together class that teaches acting and music to the youngest of students!

     
Laurynn

Laurynn's childhood was infused with music right from the start. After becoming a guitarist and saxophonist, she knew she needed to find some way to help others through the innate power she saw in music. She studied music therapy at Berklee College of Music, becoming a board certified music therapist in 2011. She has since worked in a variety of settings including special needs schools, child care, hospitals, senior care facilities and hospice. 

Laurynn, holding an MA and teaching credential in Early Childhood Special Education from San Francisco State, enjoys reaching people with music from birth through end of life and her work is a gift to us all. 

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Gina has been working with kids and their relationship with music and the arts for over 20 years. As an actress in Santa Monica she spent her free time reading to kids in inner city schools. After noticing that their music classes were cut, she began singing to them as well, and never forgot the effect that music had on their young absorbing minds. Years later, when Gina and her daughter took a Music Together class, she thought to herself, "Why don't I teach here too?” Teacher Kelly and Teacher El took her under their wings and she’s been teaching on and off for the past ten years, always brought back by the joy she gets helping kids bring their music competence to a new level. She loves what Music Together has done for her and her family and looks forward to sharing her love of music with other families.

     
Lakshmi

Lakshmi is an active performing musician, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, vocalist and kirtan leader. Her passion for sharing music has led her to stages all over the world, and recently into the classroom. She currently teaches vocal sound healing at Globe Institute in San Francisco and has now joined the ranks of amazing Music Together instructors. Her mission in Music Together is to bring the creative joy of the making of live music into the every day lives of families and to assist young children in having a head start in a life full of music making.

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Diana Davidson, a life-long singer and dancer, holds an M.Ed. from the University of Virginia in Curriculum and Instructional Design and a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles in World Arts and Cultures. Diana served as a bilingual and Spanish Immersion elementary school teacher for 10 years in San Diego, Salinas, and Arlington, VA. She has many years of experience working with children ages 0-10 in areas of art, language instruction, music, fitness, and dance. She is a certified Canta y Baila Conmigo® teacher and has been teaching the program since 2016.  Diana also successfully completed the Music Together Teaching Workshop developed by the Center for Music and Young Children, Princeton, New Jersey in Alexandria, Virginia in 2007 and her Music Together Certification Level 1 in 2013. Diana is the proud mom of two singing-dancing daughters (ages 14 and 9). 

     
Adam

Adam has performed principal tenor roles in opera houses throughout North America, Hawaii and Japan. In July 2006 he completed a five year Artist-In- Residency for Opera San Jose, performing over 32 roles. He is currently a member of the San Francisco Opera Chorus. Adam is also a teaching artist for the San Francisco Opera Guild’s Opera A La Carte and Book To Bravo educational programs with students in the 5 th -12 th grades. He is a voice student of Deborah Benedict, Dewey Camp, and Joseph Frank. His warmth and easy rapport with children and adults alike, as well as his passion for teaching, make him a perfect fit for Music Together.

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Teacher Beth discovered her love of music at an early age, singing and performing with her family, at church and in school. Trained on piano and flute in her younger years, Beth still loves to fiddle with any instrument she picks up, and plays guitar in class to enrich the music experience for her families. After joining a music class with her special needs daughter, Beth learned first-hand how powerful music is for children, just for the joy of music itself, and also as an aid in cognitive, motor and speech development. She's pretty sure that teaching music to families is the best job in the world.

     
Blair

Teacher Blair is a singer and musician. He plays guitar, ukulele, piano, and bass. Blair's interest in music was sparked through choirs. There’s nothing like singing with a diverse group of voices. He has studied both Opera and has a bachelor’s degree in Music from SFSU. He’s shared his love of music at summer camp as a counselor at Mountain Camp Woodside in Palo Alto. In addition, he has been a part of multiple resident bands around San Francisco. He looks forward to bringing the joy of music to you and your families!

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Since launching online classes due to Covid19, Tom and Justine have begun teaching together and are having a blast. Lively duo with vocals and percussion, harmony and choreography, catch these two teaching fun family classes online and in person for ages 0-8!

     
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