Meet
the teachers
Every lesson at Families in Harmony is led by a teacher who has spent years learning how children, teens, adults and seniors each hear music differently — and who has chosen to make that difference their life's work.
From a baby's first rattle to a grandparent's first Suzuki violin lesson, our faculty carries every family through the studio's full arc of learning, together.
Founder & Studio Director, Violin
Ms. Robin
Ms. Robin founded Families in Harmony to keep every generation of a household learning under one roof. What began as a handful of Suzuki violin lessons in a spare room has grown into a studio where grandparents, parents and children all study side by side.
Trained in the Suzuki method and shaped by years performing and teaching chamber music, Ms. Robin studied under Stephanie Preucil, Charles Castleman and Peter Schafer, and has attended and presented at numerous conferences. She is an expert in early childhood music education, and still teaches violin students directly — from a child's first bow hold through audition preparation — while overseeing the studio's full faculty and curriculum.
Ms. Robin is also an accomplished bell ringer who has conducted handbell choirs and children's choirs throughout Illinois, North Carolina and Virginia. A seasoned performer, she remains available for selective performance occasions.
Ms. Robin believes music is best learned the way it's best lived: together, across ages, in the same room, on the same evening. That belief is the reason Family SOS, the adult and senior program, and the studio's earliest childhood classes all exist under one address.