Melinda Creasy, the founder of Downtown Music Together, is conducting group family music classes at the Naperville Cultural Center.

Melinda has a bachelors degree in Early Childhood Studies from Cornell University and did post-graduate work in Early Childhood Education at the University of Illinois. She also studied Piano Performance during college and previously taught group and private piano lessons. In addition to the piano, Melinda studied a variety of instruments growing up including violin, cello, and harpsichord.

After many years of enjoying Music Together classes with her children, Melinda became a registered Music Together teacher and has been teaching for the past 3 years. She and her husband, Steve, are raising their 6 kids in a very musically diverse household!

Music Together is an internationally recognized early childhood music program for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, created in 1987 by co-authors Ken Guilmartin and Lili Levinowitz. The curriculum, based on extensive, ongoing research at the Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, New Jersey, teaches young children the way they learn best - through play and exploration, in the company of adults they love. The Music Together philosophy is that all children are musical and, therefore, can achieve basic music competence. Classes are an informal music and movement experience for children, birth through age 5, and their parent(s) or caregiver. Performance is not a requirement!

Classes are built on your child's natural enthusiasm for music and movement. We help you provide your child with the basic musical skills needed to enjoy school and social musical activities, and to study an instrument should he or she choose to do so.