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The Prelude Team!
Meet Our Teachers
Our teachers come from all sorts of backgrounds, but they're united by a common passion: Sharing the joy of music with children and families in Houston, The Heights, and The Woodlands!
All teachers have successfully completed the live Music Together® Teacher Training, which is built on research in early childhood and music development. We keep our skills fresh through workshops every semester and advanced trainings offered by Music Together Worldwide.
Ana Treviño-Godfrey, Director & Co-founder; Director of Education for the Prelude Music Foundation
A classically trained professional vocalist, Prelude Director Ana Treviño-Godfrey completed her doctorate in music at Rice University in 2009. She has taught students of all ages — at Michigan's Interlochen Arts Camp, The Cleveland Institue of Music, Rice University, and the Rice Preparatory Summer Vocal Camp. Ana is a certified Music Together® teacher and in 2006, her love for music and children inspired her to create Prelude Music Classes. Ana is a Teacher Trainer and workshop leader for Music Together worldwide.
Jonathan Godfrey, Co-founder & Instructor; Executive Director of the Prelude Music Foundation
Professional violinist Jonathan Godfrey has been teaching students of all ages for more than two decades. He is the concertmaster and co-founder of Mercury Chamber Orchestra. He has served as the assistant concertmaster of the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and violin faculty at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan and the Rocky Mountain Summer Conservatory in Colorado. Jonathan has also taught alongside some of the nation's most renowned violin educators, including Julia Bushkova at the Interlochen Arts Academy and Kathleen Winkler at Rice University, where he completed his Master of Music Degree.
Francyne Davis Jacobs, Instructor
Francyne Davis Jacobs, MAJMus, MAJEd, has been teaching music since 1994. She has taught all ages, from preschool through adult, and has directed both youth and adult choirs. Francyne discovered Prelude Music Classes when her daughter was five months old and continued classes with her son. Her children still love music and the memories they made in class together. Francyne hopes to make these kinds of special memories for all the families in her classes.
Giuliana Castellanos, Instructor & Prelude Music Foundation Teacher
Giuliana is a Mexican biochemical engineer with a passion for music. While attending college in Mexico, pursuing her degree in Biochemical Engineering, Giuliana explored her love of music by taking vocal training, singing in choirs that brought music to hospitals and senior centers, and performing in musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof, Grease, and Les Miserables. In 2012, after living for 4 years in Italy, she moved to Houston with her husband. She joined classes at Prelude, wanting to instill the love of music in her children and watch as they discovered the wonders of music for themselves. At Prelude, she found a wonderful community that cares for children and the grownups who love them®, offers a powerful sense of peace and connection, and allows everyone to be exactly who they are. Giuliana is thrilled to be a part of Prelude and can not wait to share the joy of making Music Together.
Isani Cayetano, Instructor; Board Member of the Prelude Music Foundation
Isani Cayetano was born in the seaside town of Dangriga, the “culture capital” of Belize, to a family of teachers and specifically to a mom and dad passionate about cultural retrieval and preservation. That meant hearing and playing, singing and dancing traditional Garifuna music practically since his first steps. When he was 9 years old, his grandmother, the matriarch of the family, handed him a guitar, declared he was to learn to play, and his passion for music only grew. These days, having practiced the art of capoeira for the last 14 years, he plays a variety of Brazilian percussive instruments with the berimbau being his favorite, and has performed on many stages here in Houston including at Jones Hall and The Toyota Center for the Latin Grammys. He is so passionate about music in fact, that upon becoming a father for the first time he named his son “Uremu” which in Garifuna means “music.”
Jaime Titus, Instructor & Prelude Music Foundation Teacher
As a flutist, pianist, singer, and music educator, Jaime Titus has been sharing her love of music with people of all ages for over 25 years. Jaime completed her doctorate in music at The Ohio State University in 2005 and has enjoyed a musical career in a variety of areas. In 2004, Jaime moved to Kansas City where she maintained a large flute and piano teaching studio, taught on the music faculty at Avila University, was sought after as a guest clinician and adjudicator in area schools, and enjoyed playing flute and piano all over the city. She also has an extensive career as a church musician, leading worship since she was 16, directing and producing numerous children's musicals, conducting church orchestras, and serving in a variety of director-level positions. Jaime moved to Houston in 2016 with her husband and two amazing children and has loved getting to know the incredible Houston community. She loves being a mom, reading, cooking, practicing yoga, cycling, taking care of her numerous pets, and volunteering in the community. Jaime is thrilled to be part of the Prelude team, where she can help pass on her passion of music to children and their caregivers.
Tricia Monticello Kievlan, Instructor; Development Coordinator of the Prelude Music Foundation
Tricia is a writer and educator who grew up singing and playing the piano in The Woodlands. Tricia loves to sing, whether it's leading worship as a cantor at church, singing with a choir, or sitting around the fire-pit with her family. She first learned about Music Together when she was in graduate school studying human development and psychology, and she was delighted to enroll in classes at Prelude when her daughter was just five months old. Tricia spent the first decade of her career working as a teacher and administrator in schools, and she transitioned to the nonprofit sector, where she writes and consults on creativity, technology, and collaboration. She holds a master's degree in Mind, Brain, and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a bachelor's degree in Plan II Honors and English from the University of Texas at Austin. She is excited to make Music Together with her neighbors at Prelude!
Patti Stoddart, Instructor
A lifelong music-lover and a longtime Music Together® parent, some of Patti's earliest memories are of singing and changing nursery rhymes with her mother. Growing up, Patti joined every choir she could find, and just kept singing whenever and wherever she could. After graduating from Austin College with a B.a. in German, she headed off to Germany as a Fulbright Scholar. She could often be found listening to a variety of live music at venues throughout Germany and Austria. When her older daughter was 16 months old, she brought her to a Music Together® class at Prelude. It was love at first listen and they never looked back. Music Together® continues to bring great joy to Patti, her husband, and two daughters. She is grateful to be part of the Prelude community and is delighted to share the joy of music making with other families.
Jennifer Morales Moore, Instructor
Jenn Moore is originally from Colombia and was raised on Long Island. She double-majored in psychology and biological anthropology, earning a Bachelor of Science degree and Certificate in Neuroscience from Duke University. Drawn to the research-based concepts of the Music Together program and inspired by a lifelong love of music, Jenn began taking Prelude Music Classes as a parent. She is delighted to help children and their loved ones to discover the lasting joys of music-making.
Edith Gonzalez, Instructor & Prelude Music Foundation Teacher
Edith Gonzalez is a current music therapist student at Sam Houston State University. She is a firm believer that music can be used as a tool to help many domains -- physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and communication within many populations. She plans to use music in her sessions to create memorable bonds and connections between children and caregiver(s) while enhancing and improving basic music competence. She is grateful to be part of a child's musical journey, for the journey has the possibility to make a positive impact on a child's life and future.
Jacinta Massey, Instructor
Jacinta was born in Argentina and has been living in the USA for the last 9 years. Music & dance have been Jactina's world ever since she was very young, and she started taking singing & dancing lessons when she was only 5 years old, and learned how to play the piano at age 6 under the tutelage of her grandmother, a professional concert pianist. She carried this love for music making throughout her formative years, singing in choir, doing musical theatre, and even spent her high school years teaching jazz dance lessons to 3-9 year olds. Jacinta holds AMI Montessori Teacher Diplomas on both Assistants to Infancy and Primary levels. Her greatest passion is to work with children and their parents bringing music, support, and knowledge during the early childhood years. Jacinta also enjoys being outdoors, surfing, practicing yoga, painting, learning about human development, and enjoying adventures with her family.
Florence Joli, Instructor & Prelude Music Foundation Teacher
Florence grew up in Paris, France and moved to Houston in 2018. She's passionate about singing, music education, and the positive impact of music. Florence started her musical journey at the age of 10, which included training in a professional youth choir where she had the opportunity to perform and travel around the world. Since her musical career began, she has sung in operas, worked with great conductors, been in musical theatre, musical comedies, and even rock shows! She also studied Jazz music and performed as professional jazz singer. Florence has a Master's degree in musicology and music education, and has been teaching music in Parisian middle-schools since 2014. Florence thrilled to be part of the Prelude team, and cannot wait to bring high quality music education to your children, and make musical memories with your family!
Katrina Wilson, Instructor & Prelude Music Foundation Teacher
Katrina Wilson grew up in Lubbock, Texas where she began her musical training playing the oboe and singing in her school's choir. She studied classical voice and musical theatre at Texas Tech University before moving to Houston. Katrina has taught private voice and acting lessons to children and adults, directed children's music and theatre shows and camps, and performed in plays, operas, and many musicals. Katrina loves brining the joy of making music to children and their families and is overjoyed to be a part of the Prelude family!
Gio Dagher, Instructor
Gio Dagher is a native Houstonian where he has been making music as early as elementary school through choir. In middle and high school, he joined the Pure Sound Youth Choir at St. Luke's United Methodist Church. Later, he joined the TApestry Players theater group at St. Luke's, performing in shows such as "The Sound of Music" and "Bright Star." Gio has been making music for as long as he can remember. He believes that learning music early in life is critical to being a creative, thoughtful, and well-rounded individual. Gio is excited to laugh, play, and make music with children and their families at Prelude!
Meet Our Admin Team
Margaret Owen, Office Manager; Director of Operations at the Prelude Music Foundation
Margaret Owen, a native Houstonian, has loved music since childhood. Margaret grew up singing with her grandmother, exploring her father's records of the Kingston Trio, Simon and Garfunkle, and Gordon Lightfoot, and attending ballets with her mother and sisters. Margaret continued singing in high school and through college as a member of the UT Women's Chorus and has sung professionally at weddings - including each of her three siblings'! A writer, illustrator, and creative professional, Margaret Owen graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Texas at Austin. With a passion for education, Margaret has created educational content for various curriculum companies in Houston. Due to most serendipitous circumstances, Margaret started working at Prelude and the Prelude Music Foundation in October of 2016 and has no intention of leaving! As the Prelude Music Foundation continues to grow, she completed the Fort Bend for Excellence for Nonprofit Leadership course through the George Foundation. Margaret is an avid fan of anything in the genre of fantasy or science fiction, a novice Dungeons and Dragons player, and an aspiring author and illustrator of both children's books and comic books featuring her nieces and nephews.
Alia Campbell, Prelude Administrator & Registrar
Alia is a third-culture individual: born abroad and was raised in various countries across the world--Australasia, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and so on--before moving to the United States where she got her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Savannah, Georgia. Alia was inspired from a young age to pursue a creative career and could always be found drawing, writing, and creating in her free time. She vividly recalls sitting in the audience at the Sydney Opera House, age 4, watching a large-scale puppet show of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and how that show ignited the creative spark inside of her; the characters from her favorite bedtime story coming to life on stage. Completely and totally enraptured by the complexity of cross-medium storytelling, and how the medium and atmosphere in which art is consumed changes the memory and emotion of the art itself, Alia developed a lifelong love of art, music, and storytelling (and a deep love of Tolkien's work). She picked up the flute and guitar, and has been creating music & art ever since. Alia graduated college in 2014 and spent her first few years post-graduation animating & writing for independent studios in Atlanta, and moved to Houston in 2019 to be closer to her grandfather, and just so happened to find an apartment right next door to one Margaret Owen. She curiously asked to know more about the wonderful place Margaret kept talking about, and has been a member of the Prelude family ever since. Alia is an avid fan of fantasy, speculative fiction, and space operas, playing video games, listening to podcasts, watching video essays, and absorbing obscure & fascinating factoids.
To learn more about our music classes for children in Houston, The Heights, and The Woodlands, call us at (832) 803-7701 or send an email to [email protected]
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