What makes Musikgarten so special - A teacher’s perspective:

Cycle of Seasons (ages 3-4)

Location: St. Bernard’s Episcopal Church, 88 Claremont Rd, Bernardsville, NJ 07924
9:45am – 10:30am
Three Sections TUESDAYS 9:45-10:30; WEDNESDAYS 9:45-10:30; WEDNESDAYS 1:00-1:45

Fall Session: 9/10-11/20
Winter session: 12/3-2/19
Spring Session: 3/18-5/28

Tuition: $160 (includes materials*)

Celebrate your preschooler’s growing independence and love of the outdoors with activities involving the four seasons in the Cycle of Seasons.

Developed to build attention and self-expression, activities include singing, chanting, moving, focused listening, musical games, exploring musical instruments, creative movement, and storytelling.

The Cycle of Seasons 10 lesson class nurtures your growing child’s ability to use language and participate in dramatic play within a musical context. There will be poetry, fingerplays, singing games, and action songs.

*Family materials include a 2 CDs (or digital).

Mixed Age Pajama Music Class (ages 1-4)

Location: St. Bernard’s Episcopal Church, 88 Claremont Rd, Bernardsville, NJ 07924
6:45-7:15pm WEDNESDAYS

September 11, 2024–November 20, 2024*

*No classes will be held on October 23

Tuition: $135 (includes materials*)

These weekly Pajama Classes are slower-paced for babies and toddlers winding down for the day. Still full of singing, chanting, moving, dancing, listening, and playing simple instruments, all activities that bridge the natural connection between music and movement while helping to focus energy towards rest and bed.

Each lesson features age-appropriate movement activities for coordination, body awareness and control, language development, exploration of space, and playing of instruments such as rhythm sticks, jingles, rattles, drums, and resonator bars.

Children will begin to develop listening and singing skills and a sense of beat as well as a curiosity about music that will last a lifetime. There will be poetry, fingerplays, singing games, and action songs.

*Family materials include a CD (or digital) and picture book.

Meet the Instructor

When her children were toddlers, Alison Siener Brown researched lots of different music classes to take them to. As a professional musician, a high quality curriculum was a must. From the very first class, she knew she had found exactly what she was looking for. A year later, Alison began training and is now a certified and licensed Musikgarten teacher. In April 2012 she received the Musikgarten Achievement Award in recognition of completing all levels of training in the Musikgarten Music and Movement Series. Alison holds a Master of Music in Sacred Music and Organ Performance from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Music in Sacred Music from Westminster Choir College. She currently serves as Music Director at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Millington, NJ, where she plays the organ and directs the adult and the junior choirs. She has been teaching private piano lessons since 1997. She lives in Bernardsville, NJ with her husband and two sons.