A bit about me - Vanessa Webb
I have lived in Camberley, Surrey for the last 12 years and have 2 children
aged 14 and 16 years.
Until Summer 2001 I worked for a
large blue chip global American company as a Senior Manager in Product
Development. I went there from University with a PhD in Biochemistry and
stayed there for 12 years. Although I loved the job, its fit with family
life was not good. I had the opportunity to take voluntary redundancy and
jumped at the chance, as this meant I could see more of my children.
I have always been musical.
Seemingly I sang before I could speak!. I learned the piano from the age
of 5 and then recorders, guitar and clarinet. I have Grade 5 piano, theory
and Grade 6 in recorders and Grade 8 clarinet. At school and university I
played in orchestras, woodwind ensembles and sang in choirs, more recently in the Sunningdale
Savoy Chorus. I recently taught recorders at Primary school
for 5 years
and also private pupils
at home. I have played in the Camberley Recorder ensemble and also take singing
and recorder lessons. I have recently recorded a single and I am a member of the Musicians Union.
When I left work, I was, keen to
find a rewarding job that used my business skills and fitted well around
the children. Building on my love of music, the natural choice for me was
running my own business teaching children's music classes around school
hours.
As
someone who really believes in the value of childhood music education it
was important to me to find a quality music programme. I had taken my
children to music classes in the past but couldn't find anything of the
quality I wanted locally. After much research I came across Kindermusik®
from the US, a highly successful programme with
over 6000 educators internationally.
As former scientist, Kindermusik
impressed me because of the amount of childhood research that supported
the programme and which is kept up to date. Kindermusik is built
on strong foundations. There are reasons why we do each piece of the class
- which area of child development it stimulates, which together grow the
whole child, with music as the common thread. The
parent is key in the whole
process, the first and foremost teacher and gets a lot out of the class as
well as being vital to continuing the learning at home. Above all,
Kindermusik is fun.
I
attended workshops and trained as a Licensed Educator in 2001 and started
teaching in Feb 2002. The programme has grown rapidly
and I currently have around 70 families
enjoying Kindermusik. I have been designated a Kindermusik Maestro,
for the last 7 years, now representing the top 1% of Kindermusik educators
worldwide.
I have been the Area
developer for Kindermusik in the UK and Ireland since August 2004 and am
responsible for developing the brand in the UK and Ireland. The
Kindermusik UK/ Ireland educator community is now growing very rapidly and
is the fastest growing Kindermusik programme worldwide, reaching over 90 licenced teachers in
a few years.
Check out more info on
www.kindermusik.co.uk
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