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MEET OUR TEAM OF TEACHERS!

During the Covid pandemic, many of our teachers took a break from teaching. We're happy to be rebuilding our team!

If you are a trained musician who enjoys children and has energy to spare, send us your resume!

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Abby Blechman grew up in Nashville and began voice lessons at age 13, continuing her musical journey throughout high school. She sang on studio demos, performed in the All State Honor Choir for four years, and loved performing around Nashville. After graduating from Indiana University with a degree in Apparel Merchandising and Business, Abby’s career took her from New York to Chicago, where she joined an a-cappella group and rediscovered her love of performing.

 

Since moving back home to Nashville in 2019, Abby has continued to keep music at the center of her life. Now a mom to two little music lovers, she’s thrilled to share her lifelong passion for music with young children and their families as part of the Sound Start Nashville team.

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Rachel Hoffman grew up in a musical family. She began piano lessons at the age of five and continued her musical journey by studying voice, participating in choirs, ensembles, and vocal competitions, and later studied at the prestigious Berklee College of Music where she received her Bachelor of Music degree with honors. As a Professional Music major, she specialized in Songwriting, Vocal Performance and Private Studio Instruction. Since moving to Nashville in 1998, Rachel has worked in music publishing, provided children's entertainment at Nashville events, directed children's choirs, taught music classes for middle school and high school students, and continues to teach private voice lessons for older children, teens, and adults. Rachel began our early childhood classes in 2004 and has had the privilege of helping train early childhood music teachers around the world. She is committed to providing the very best early childhood music education during the most critical time of music development. Rachel adores every child she meets - especially her three adult children.

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Huxley Rittman was born in New York and raised in Singapore. He has been performing across two decades, three continents, four instruments and more projects than anybody could keep track of. He began his musical journey at age 6 on the piano. Ultimately the guitar became his principal instrument when he enrolled at Berklee College of Music in 2014. From Boston, Huxley moved to Nashville to pursue more musical opportunities and is thrilled to have found a place in the Sound Start family, giving the gift of rhythm and song to the new generation.

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