LouAnne, Director/Teacher, comes to Music Time with many years of preschool experience. She taught preschool at 1st United Methodist Preschool for five years and was the Director of McGregor Baptist Preschool for six years. She also led the music program for 3, 4, and 5 years olds at 1st United Methodist Preschool and Briarcliff Baptist Preschool for three years. In addition she taught piano privately for nine years and currently is the pianist at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church on DeLeon St. Her biggest passion by far, though, is teaching the Music Together^®® classes!

She has been a registered teacher for Music Together since August 2006. Additionally, in July 2008 she was awarded Certification Level 1 from the Center for Music and Young Children, in Princeton, NJ having demonstrated outstanding achievement in teaching, musicianship, program philosophy and parent education.

LouAnne loves sharing this incredible music program with all the families!

Lisa Pennington is a graduate of The Florida State University with a degree in music. She taught Suzuki violin to ages 3 - adult for 18 years. Recently, from 2001 to 2007, Lisa was the strings director at Edison Park Elementary.

In 2007, her daughter Elaine was born and she decided to be a stay at home mom. Lisa and Elaine are currently participating in Music Together classes and have been enjoying the program since Elaine was 8 weeks old. Knowing that every child is musical, Lisa wanted to start her daughter's musical competency at an early age and create a fun, playful learning environment that the entire family would enjoy.

Lisa decided to become a Music Together teacher when she saw how receptive her daughter was to the music as an infant. Lisa completed her training in July 2008 is a registered teacher for the Music Together Program.

Krista is attending Florida Gulf Coast University to receive her early childhood and elementary education degrees.  She was first introduced to Music Together by her voice teacher who thought that this was the perfect opportunity to combine her two loves, singing and children.     

After one of her younger cousins attended some Music Together classes and she saw the impact that music made in such a young child, she was very excited to start.  Now some of her favorite times are sitting around with her cousins and singing songs from one of the selections, as she watches them add their own twist or pretend to be the teacher.      

Krista completed her training in June 2009 and is a registered teacher for the Music Together Program.  She is excited to share music with all the families each week.

Is the mother of a 24 mo. old little boy, who has totally become a Music Together kid!  Not only is she teaching Music Together, she and her son Draven, attend classes and have fun making music together at home.  She has since added another son to her family named Max.

Janet has been having fun playing music since kindergarten. She plays all kinds of strings and a wide range of percussion instruments. These include Guitar, Mandolin, Bouzouki and Drum.

Janet took her Music Together teacher training at the Center for Music and Young Children, in Princeton, NJ in April 2009; and is involved with various, Ft. Myers community activities, Arts and Performance Arts.

For the last 14 years, she has been President and Owner of the Alchemists of Faux Finishing, Inc., creating unique custom finishes and hand painted wallpaper.

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Kim Setser is new to the Music Together program but brings her own varied experience into her classroom. As a former nanny for many years, Kim knows what it's like to make up songs in the car, dance around the kitchen and surround children with basic musical concepts. She is also a former occupational therapist for children with autism, working with various programs that included musical and sensory therapies.

Originally from Kansas, Kim got her musical education at Wichita State University.  She represented her home state in the Miss America Program as Miss Kansas 2001.  During her year of service she traveled over 40,000 miles speaking and performing in schools K-12. Since then she has performed professionally in music theater productions  across the country. 

Kim is married to Rick Setser who is the Worship Pastor for Crosspoint Church in Cape Coral.  There she sings on the worship team and volunteers with the youth group.

Kim completed her training in September 2011 to become a registered teacher for Music Together.

Originally from Dayton, Ohio, Mrs. Leslie DiPofi is a graduate of Wright State University in Dayton, OH, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education and K-8 certification, and is a graduate of Malone College in Canton, OH with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business, Psychology and Physical Education. She has given private piano lessons for over 17 years to preschoolers through adults. She taught 2nd grade at Salem Christian Academy in Dayton, Ohio for 7 years, and also taught 2nd/3rd/4th grades at Bethel Christian School in Jefferson, OH. She is presently the Keyboards and Introduction to Music teacher at Classical Christian Academy in N. Ft. Myers.
 
Leslie decided to become a Music Together teacher when she saw the impact the program made on their son, Daniel, and in their family. Daniel has been leading music classes at home, "just like Mrs. LouAnne." He is so excited for the Big Kids class this fall!
 
Leslie enjoys playing the piano/keyboard, guitar, recorder, ukelele, and picking the banjo. She sings and plays keyboard and piano on the praise and worship team. She works closely with her husband, Dr. Duke DiPofi, Associate Pastor at Ft. Myers Evangelical Free Church, as a leader in the youth ministry with the girls.
 
Leslie completed her training in September 2011 to become a registered teacher for the Music Together program.