Janet Campbell, a resident of Frenchtown, NJ, just celebrated her 100^th semester teaching Music Together classes. Since the summer of 1990, Campbell has brought the award-winning early childhood music education program to thousands of families in Flemington, High Bridge, Annandale, Whitehouse Station, Stockton, Princeton, Trenton, Hopewell, and Lawrenceville.

According to Kenneth K. Guilmartin, Founder and Artistic Director of Music Together, “Janet has exceptional stamina, creativity, perseverance, musical skills and knowledge. The thousands of Music Together children and parents throughout New Jersey whom she has taught have thrived because of her love for music and teaching. She also has prodigious guitar and vocal skills! She is our first teacher to reach the 100-semester milestone—and we are very proud and honored that she is a part of the Music Together family.”

Born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Campbell received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Therapy with a concentration in Oboe from the University of Georgia. For 15 years, she was a Music Together center director in the greater Flemington area. Campbell was also the first music therapist to use the Music Together curriculum in a therapeutic setting and was a program developer for Music Together’s Guitar for Grownups class. She currently teaches classes at the Music Together Princeton Lab School, Music Together Family and Friends, and the Trenton Community Music School. Campbell also owns Music Box Studios, where she provides private and family music lessons, music therapy, and birthday party entertainment. She plays the oboe, recorder, pan pipes, guitar, autoharp, dulcimer, ukulele, and piano. 

Campbell said, “It doesn’t seem like 100 semesters when you find so much joy in nurturing the love of music in young children and their families. Watching the bond between parents and children deepen through singing, chanting, rhythmic touch and creative movement is exhilarating And every time a child comes up to me for a hug or to strum my guitar I feel very blessed.”

Music Together is an internationally recognized, developmentally appropriate early childhood music and movement program for children birth through grade two. First offered to the public in 1987, the Music Together curriculum, coauthored by Kenneth K. Guilmartin and Dr. Lili Levinowitz, is based on the recognition that all children are musical. All children can learn to sing in tune, move with accurate rhythm, and participate with confidence in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning. Music Together offers programs for families, schools, at-risk populations, and children with special needs, in over 2,500 communities in 41 countries around the world. The company is passionately committed to bringing children and their caregivers closer through shared music-making and helping people discover the joy—and educational value—of early music experiences.

More at www.musictogether.com and www.facebook.com/musictogether.