 Mary Louise Wilson, PhD, Co-Director and Instructor Mary Louise Wilson is a sought-after clinician in the area of early childhood music and is frequently invited to present at national and state music conferences. Mary Louise also serves as a teacher educator for Musikgarten (an early childhood music company in Greensboro, NC) and conducts teacher-training workshops throughout the US, Canada, England, Taiwan, South Korea, China, and Malaysia. She is the co-author of Musikgarten's "Music Makers: At the Keyboard" and “Musikgarten Adults Enjoying the Piano Together. A
native Georgian, Dr.
Wilson and her husband, Dr. Don Wilson, have recently moved to the
Atlanta area. Mary Louise is enthusiastic about
bringing music and movement to young children and their families here,
as she has been doing in Miami for the past 24 years, where she
served as a UM Music Time program instructor and faculty member in
the school of education at the University of Miami. She holds
certification as a Speciality Trainer in Music from Bright From
the Start: The Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning. Mary
Louise holds Level III certification, the highest level
granted, from the Early Childhood Music and Movement
Association. She is in her 2nd term serving on the
international Board as First Vice-President. Dr. Wilson holds a
Bachelors and a Masters Degree from the University of North Texas and a
PhD in Music Education from Louisiana State University.
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 Tamara Albrecht, Founder and Co-Director Tamara Makdad Albrecht is Instructor in Music History and Cannon Chapel Organist and Choirmaster for University Worship at Emory University, where she also teaches organ and harpsichord. In addition, she founded the Children's Music Development Center. Her Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Music Education degrees are from Wittenberg University, her Master of Music degree from Northwestern University. Ms.
Albrecht is certified in Level I Orff, Level III Early Childhood
Music and Movement Association, and MusikgartenŽ. She performs as
continuo player in chamber music ensembles and leads workshops for
children’s church music and classroom music. She is the author of a
children's choir resource book, Singing Through the Church Year,
published by Morningstar Music. This 150-page volume includes many
original compositions for the liturgical year as well as ideas for
children and youth choir development. In 2005 Ms. Albrecht won
first prize at the Unfinished Works Contest in Los Angeles for
the music she composed for a play/cantata entitled The Grief and
the Promise which deals with children with AIDS. She is currently
pursuing a doctorate at the Institute of Worship Studies in
Jacksonville, FL.
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Thomas
Vinton, Instructor
Thomas Vinton holds a bachelor's degree
from Davidson College and a master's degree from the University of
Miami.
Thomas "Mr.
V." Vinton began playing and writing songs as a child and shares his
love of learning music with kids of all ages today. He began
taking private lessons at age 5 and started his first band at age 12.
A
lifelong learner, Vinton continually seeks out professional development
opportunities while expressing himself with his current soul-rock
group, Allen, Vinton and Godfrey. Working as a media producer
throughout the nineties in Austin, TX, he voiced and scored the musiic
to several widely released educational programs for Holt, Rinehard and
Winston and produced numerous soundtracks for nationally-aired TV
commercials. His kid-friendly CD "My Name is Nommi Girinkinin,"
and accompanying live shows were a hit with Austin families.
Moving
to Atlanta in 2004, Vinton shortened his name to "Mr. V" and began
offering after-school music lessons and other workshops in schools,
churches and recreational centers. He recently served as music
teacher at Atlanta New Century School for three years, where he taught
the Musikgarten curriculum and produced many liveshows featuring highly
talented 3- to 12-year olds.
