Meet Teacher Ellen - our center director!

Born and Raised in Taiwan, Ellen Yi Chun Lin started piano at age five and picked up the double bass at age 9. She moved to the United States at age 15 and attended the Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts where upon graduation Ellen was a recipient of the Timothy G. Taylor Scholarship for Performing Arts. In 2006 she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

A natural with young children and young adults, Ellen enjoyed a few years of teaching and mentoring in San Francisco and taught two summers at the at the Hayward La Honda Music Camp. With her strong people skills and warm hospitality, Ellen found the perfect couple (Massi and Jennifer Boldrini) to work with in 2007, opening an Italian restaurant in Berkeley. She was there until the birth of her son in 2015.

 In 2016, Ellen moved with her family to Sonoma County after being offered a job managing a sculpture ranch in Geyserville. Ellen and her now four year old son can be found regularly at local music events, him front and center trying to blend in as a performer! Ellen is happiest when she is able to influence, inspire and support others through her passion of classical music (or non-classical, but she mostly leaves that to her husband Jeff, who is a human encyclopedia of all things rock-and-roll)

Ellen became a certified Music Together teacher in 2020 and is excited to be able to share the musical journey with children and their grown ups!

register soon for Spring classes

ALL Cloverdale Classes ARE MIXED-AGE CLASSES

• for infants, toddlers, and "littles" plus the adults who love them - yes, adults attend!

• Older siblings are welcome, too, as "special helpers"

The Music Together® philosophy is that ALL children are musical -- and that we are all born with musical capabilities.

Music is something we DO - not something that we only consume.

Summer 2021 session

“Harmonica”

Summer semester Registration is OPEN!

Music Together Online

Classes will be held IN the United Church Cloverdale Fellowship hall

We are excited to be safely meeting again in person, and will also have some pre-recorded video available.

Each Class will have a maximum of 6 families, so register early!

In Person Summer classes will be offered as weather, COVID, and fire season permits.

You MUST be registered and confirm your attendance with Ellen. We are not allowing drop-ins at this time.

We will be practicing distancing, and following county COVID19 guidelines.

Families must sign up (make a reservation) for each in-person class they plan on attending. (No "drop-ins" will be allowed.)

Please help everyone by keeping children and yourselves at home if you are feeling unwell, there may be chances that you could schedule for a make up lesson. Everyone’s health and safety is always a priority so we can keep having fun!

What do you get for your registration fee?

• Six (6) In-person classes with Ellen (each class will be 45 minutes)

• Bonus end of semester ZOOM hangout with all registered families!

• a CD with all of the music from the current session

• A beautifully illustrated family songbook that your littles will want to “read” over and over again!

• Online download code so that you can download the music directly to your computer, phone, or pad - there is a great FREE Music Together®  app called "Hello Everybody" for IOS and Android devices. (You can use this app whether you are registered or not- it comes with a set of songs already preloaded! If you are registered, you enter your code to get more songs.)

• By request, a songbook of full music written out - with all the current songs (with guitar chords, too)

• An account to access the national Music Together Parent Resource pages