Our Teachers

Glenda has been performing and teaching throughout her life.  Her teaching includes work with all ages from early beginners to college students and beyond.  She has enjoyed helping adults seeking new skills or rediscover an old one.  Her performance credits include some of America's finest professional orchestras including both the Minnesota and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestras. She enjoyed extensive freelance work as well with fine touring ensembles like The Joffrey Ballet and the Houston Grand Opera.  While living in the Pittsburgh area, she performed regularly with the River City Brass Band and the Pittsburgh Symphony.  A native of East Tennessee, Ms. Cloutier performed as a member of the University of Tennessee Brasswind Quintet, the Knoxville Wind Symphony, the Clarence Brown Theatre orchestra, and has enjoyed performing with the Knoxville Symphony for many years as an extra.  Ms. Cloutier holds performance degrees from the University of Tennessee and Northwestern University as well as study in Music Therapy at the University of Minnesota.  Her trumpet teachers include world renowned brass masters Vincent Cichowicz, Arnold Jacobs, Manny Laureano, Barbara Butler, Catherine Leach and other distinguished musicians.

Gina Godoy has been studying and playing music almost all of her life, which led her down the path of a career in music teaching. She graduated from Allegheny College (Meadville, PA) in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music (piano) and went on to earn her Masters degree in Music Education at SUNY at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY) in 2010. She discovered her passion for early childhood music education during her graduate studies and went on to complete her Music Together teacher training. She did a two semester apprenticeship with Music Together of Hampton Roads in Virginia with Emily Brennan in 2011. After moving to the west coast in 2012, she began her own Music Together center in Hillsboro, OR. She taught parent/child music classes, preschool music classes, and had several private piano students. During this time, she had the privilege of earning her Level I teacher certification with Lilli Levinowitz, co-founder of Music Together. In 2016, she and her husband moved to East Tennessee and eventually settled in Oak Ridge in 2018. For the last five years she has been a stay at home mom to two beautiful children, but kept teaching Music Together classes at Bill Jones Music in Knoxville. Singing, dancing, and playing with children and their families has been one of her biggest joys. She's thrilled that Glenda has brought Music Together to the Oak Ridge community and looks forward to bringing music into the lives of young children and their families in the area!