Alexandra Andrews, director of Apple Country Music Together, has been playing the flute and teaching music since she was in high school.  She has a BA in Human Development from Colby College, and developed and taught a music theory curriculum as part of an accelerated middle school program in coastal Maine.  She has taught Music Together^® since 1999 after attending Music Together classes with her own children for 2 years.  In July 2003, she was awarded the Music Together Certification I designation, recognizing her experience and expertise with the curriculum and completion of advanced level training.  She is past member of the Board of Directors of the Hudson Area Arts Alliance, a non-profit umbrella arts organization, and teaches flute lessons in the after-school music lesson program there.  In April 2007, she was elected to the Music Together Directors Leadership Group.  When she’s not teaching, she likes to try out new recipes on her family, plays flute in the Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestra, and tries to keep her garden weeded and her houseplants watered.

Barbara Hall-Siktberg has been involved in music her whole life, brought up in a musically active family. She started singing in choir when she was 4, began piano at age 7, and recorder and trumpet at age 8 and 9.  Always involved in many music activities, she has taught music in various summer camps and played many performances throughout high school and college.  Barb attended Berklee College of Music to round out a mostly classical background, receiving a Bachelors in Music Education and where she studied the Jump-Right-In method of instrumental study based on the Gordon music learning theory with Chris Azzara at the Hartt School of Music summer program. She was a founding member of and performed regularly with the Quintessential Brass Quintet for 6 years.   She taught in the public schools as an Elementary Band Director for 10 years before starting a family. In addition to raising kids and weeding her garden, she is also teaching instrumental lessons for the Hudson Public Schools/Arts Alliance after-school lesson program, and directing the children’s choir at her church.  She attended Music Together classes with each of her three children and began teaching the program in 2005.

Michelle Tate has a Bachelor of Fine Arts, but also loves the field of music.  Michelle has been involved in music since first taking piano lessons at age 5.  She has also studied flute and piccolo, and quite brilliantly snapped her piccolo in half  while branching out into percussion at a high school football game. Michelle has also been a member of several choirs, and currently directs the children's choir at her church. Michelle's love of music introduced her to Music Together as a parent in 2002 which inspired her to train and become a registered Music Together teacher in 2003.  Michelle is the lucky mother of 3 fantastic children, and is attempting to teach herself the guitar. She does not bother weeding her garden, but instead takes African drumming classes on the side.

Cate Lefebvre currently works as a speech and language teacher, and is set to graduate from Worcester State College as a Speech Language Pathologist in 2008.  She loves working with young people with disabilities, but sharing music is what feeds her soul.  She grew up in a family of musicians and artists, and was known to whistle and sing to herself as a child.  Although she originally attended UMass Amherst as a vocal music major, her path led to speech-language pathology, a field in which she hopes one day to practice as a voice therapist.  Despite having spent most of her life thus far pursuing her formal education, music and silliness is a huge part of who she is.  Cate recently celebrated her second wedding anniversary with her husband, a high school band director, and looks forward to singing with their eight month-old daughter, Phoebe, in her Music Together classes this session! 

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