Our Teachers

All of our teachers are passionate about music and the development of children. Our instructors are Registered Music Together® teachers, having completed a 3 1/2-day Teacher Training given by the Center for Music and Young Children (CMYC), Princeton, NJ. We are committed to excellence, regularly attend additional trainings offered in our area and in Princeton, and work closely together to benefit from each other’s expertise. They create a fun, informal, social setting that spurs engagement and supports each child's musical development.


photo Gail Wright Lee

Gail Wright Lee is the owner of Music Spectrum School for the Arts. She grew up in Rochester, NY, a city that loves the arts! She studied Clarinet at the Eastman School of Music and later switched to Arts Administration, working for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in public relations. In 1978, Gail, her sisters and parents moved to Northern Virginia and she began assisting Grandmaster H.K. Lee (who she married in 1980) in running the H.K. Lee Academy of TaeKwonDo, the original martial arts school in Western Fairfax County. In 1999, they established the very first Transported After School Martial Arts program in the area. With Gail's 35+ years of running the TKD school, coupled with her background in Music and Arts Management, she opened Music Spectrum School for the Arts in September 2013. She invited Music Together Sing and Groove to hold classes at her music school because she felt it was the very best preschool music program! She and her children and grandchildren greatly enjoyed going though the nine collections. Gail's a strong believer that singing and making music make people happier, healthier and smarter! And making music “together” magnifies this—adding even more social and emotional benefits! Gail looks forward to seeing you in class!

     
photo Linda Criscitello

Linda Criscitello earned a bachelor’s degree in Theatre from the University of California at Irvine and a master’s degree in Deaf Education from Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. Professionally, Linda enjoyed a career in musical theatre, touring in productions of 42nd Street, West Side Story, A Chorus Line, and Singin’ in the Rain. In 1996, while living in New York City, Linda attended Music Together® classes with her son. She immediately fell in love with the program, which inspired her to complete the Music Together Teacher Training program. After moving to Northern Virginia in 2002, Linda founded Music Together Sing and Groove in Vienna. She retired from the administrative side in 2023 but still enjoys teaching the classes. She not only shares her musical talents with the very young— she currently teaches Tap to school-aged kids at Cuppett Performing Arts Center in Vienna, and has taught dance to a group of 65-88 year-old women called the Diamond Tappers. When she's not singing and dancing with our Music Together families, Linda values time spent with her husband Doug and their three adult children, Sammy, Kyle and Lyndsay. 

     
photo Jennifer Nickl

Jennifer Nickl holds a B.F.A. in Acting from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. As a child, she sang and danced around the living room while her father played guitar. She then spent many years studying ballet, jazz, modern and tap dance through classes in PA and NYC, as well as studying singing while living in NYC. She has worked professionally as a performer, stage manager and theater director, and has even worked on Broadway as the Production Assistant of The Secret Garden. After becoming a mother of two, Jennifer was excited to find the Music Together program. Upon realizing that much of her time was still spent singing and dancing around the living room, she gladly embraced the idea of becoming a Music Together teacher. She’s deeply grateful for the music making role models in her family, and especially her father, who inspired her to learn to play guitar! Jennifer loves sharing her musical skills and dramatic experience with families and making Music Together!

     
photo Robin Restrepo

A native of Chicago, Robin began her violin studies with the Suzuki Method at the age of 3. She studied with  Stephanie Preucil,  Charles Castleman and Betty Haag, and attended The Augustana College Chamber Program. She earned her Suzuki Violin certification through Book 5 and has over 25 years experience educating children using the Suzuki Method, as well as traditional methods. Robin has been a leader in Early Childhood Music Education for decades. While maintaining her large private and group instruction studio, her passion for Early Childhood Music Education led her to develop her own curriculum, receiving grants to bring it to over 2000 Head Start children over the course of 5 years. She has served as guest clinician at Chorister's Guild and The United Church of Christ Musician's conferences as an Early Childhood Music specialist. Her passion for music education includes over 20 years of conducting children's vocal and Handbell choirs, many of whom toured the United States under her direction. Robin is excited to bring her love of music education to her new home—Northern Virginia!

     
photo Anica Lee

Anica Heeyun Lee graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a double major, achieving Bachelors of Music in both voice performance and music education.  She has been teaching at Music Spectrum School since 2017 and received her Music Together teacher training in 2023. While attending Eastman, she attained broad experience teaching in many Rochester, NY area schools from preschool through elementary school, middle school and high school. She was also a secondary vocal teacher at Eastman, providing weekly voice lessons to vocal performance undergraduate students. Ms. Lee is a native of Northern Virginia. Before attending Eastman, she attended Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, where she served as the student music director of the Concert Choir and Women’s Choir. She also attended and was a soloist at the Virginia Governor’s School at Radford University. Ms. Lee has been teaching private lessons in Ashburn and Rochester since 2011.

     
photo Kelley Dauberman

Kelly Dauberman is a music educator with a K-12 music educator degree, dual vocal and instrumental licensure, and a master's degree in educational leadership.  As an accomplished vocalist and pianist, she holds certifcations in Piano Express, Harmony Road, and Music Together.  While she previously taught privately, it was enrolling her own 3 1/2-year-old twins in Music Together that truly reignited her passion for teaching music.  Witnessing firsthand how the program fosters a love for music and play in her family's daily life, Kelley has enthusiastically returned to teaching, dedicated to sharing this enriching experience and helping other families discover the joy of Music Together.