Jane Smolens

Jane has been a Music Educator since 1986. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Oberlin College in 1980, and later received her M.Ed. from the University of Utah with a focus on Music Education and Curriculum Development in 1995. She also studied at the Dalcroze School of Music in New York City. Jane completed her Music Together® training in 1999. Jane has been the Director/Owner of Mountain Song Music Studio, since its inception in 2002. She was the first to bring the Music Together Program to Northern Colorado in 2003. She recently retired from her Boulder and Northern Colorado Directorship and is focusing on her Boulder teaching/directing. She has mentored and supervised many successful teachers and has reached thousands of  families through her center. The Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, New Jersey  awarded Jane Smolens Music Together Certification Level I status for outstanding achievement in teaching, musicianship, program philosophy and parent education. She has been a Music Specialist on the preschool and elementary level and has many years of early childhood teaching experience. Jane has been a research assistant for The Mozart Effect for Children by Don Campbell and has taught private piano lessons to children since 1986. Through the Don Campbell Scholarship fund, she offers Music Together Classes to families in need. Additionally been a guest lecturer at the College of Music at the University of Colorado (most recently for the Symposium "Your Brain Needs Music" in October of 2013), The Parenting Place of Boulder, The "Be Well Mama" Event in Boulder and The Boulder New Moms Club of Foothills Hospital. Jane continues to focus on her private beginning piano and guitar instruction in her Central Boulder studio. She continues to teach the Music Together Program through Music Together of Boulder.