City Kids Music / Staff

All City Kids Music teachers have been trained by the Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, New Jersey and are registered to teach Music Together®.

Director Pam Cecil¸ performed in the Broadway companies of "La Cage Aux Folles", "42nd Street", "Can Can", and in the national tour of "A Chorus Line". She was a soloist and featured actress in the Radio City Music Hall Christmas and Easter shows, and also played numerous musical and dramatic roles in regional theater, most notably at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Walnut Street Theatre. Commercials, soaps, film, and voice-overs are also among her professional credits. A Music Together center director for eight years, Pam is also a certified level 1 MT teacher.

Donetta Riley, a singer, actor, and improviser, holds an M.F.A. in Theatre Arts, with an emphasis in teaching from the University of Louisville. Donetta has seven neices, two nephews, two grand-nieces and two-god children.
She teaches Music Together in Washington Heights and Brooklyn, as well as her own theatre arts program for children, Destination Imagination.

Jeannie Arbeiter has a BA in Music from Smith Jean Arbeiter has appeared on Broadway in the final cast of CATS as well as numerous regional theatres around the country in such productions as Man of La Mancha,, Music Man, My Fair Lady, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and Intimate Apparel. Jean has been a certified Music Together instructor since 2001.

Kathleen Kilbane has a BA in Music from Smith College and a MM in vocal performance from New England Conservatory. She has performed in theaters throughout the Northeast and is an active freelance singer.
She also teaches in the after-school music program at the Caedmon School. Her three children have all taken Music Together classes; Kathleen loves to introduce the fun of MT to other families.

Maren Ellefson Hi everyone! My name is Maren Ellefson and I am originally from Minnesota. I have my BS in Elementary Education from the University of Minnesota and became a certified teacher by the state of Minnesota back in 2007.
   I am a professional singer as well and have been working as a production singer for Carnival Cruise Lines since graduating college in 2007. I recently moved to Brooklyn to pursue 'land living' as well as a career in singing.
   My first experience with Music Together was last year while I was living in Nashville, TN and working as a nanny. I had the honor of taking the little boy I nannied for to his classes and knew I had to be apart of this great program as it combines my love of music with my passion for educating children.
   I am a vivacious, fun, 'go getter' of a girl from the Midwest and I am so excited to be apart of the Music Together family!

Seung-Hee Han, a jazz singer, is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and holds a master degree in performance from the New England Conservatory of Music.
In Boston she taught music classes for young children, and now teaches voice and piano at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and performs around town with a jazz trio.

Yvonne Bill-Anderson is a classically trained soprano with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre from The University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Master of Music in Voice from Manhattan School of Music.
   She has appeared in a variety of performances ranging from musical theatre to arts song to opera and the great choral works and has worked with companies such as Dicapo Opera Theatre, Opera Manhattan, The Montclair Chamber Ensemble, Light Opera of Oklahoma, The New York Philharmonic, The American Symphony and Cincinnati Opera among others.
   Most recently she was heard as Mimì in Opera Manhattan's production of Puccini's La Bohème and as Madame de Rosemonde in Dicapo Opera’s production of Dangerous Liaisons by Conrad Suza. She was fortunate enough to appear in the ensemble of the New York Philharmonic performances of Sweeney Todd in 2000 and to sing in the ensemble of Sondheim’s Nonesuch recording of The Frogs conducted by Paul Gemignani in the same year.
   Ms. Bill came to Music Together through her son Gabriel’s involvement and became a Certified Instructor in 2010.

Suzanne  Fiore is a professional, award-winning vocalist. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with an emphasis in Voice and Acting from The Boston Conservatory. She is also a proud graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts in Manhattan.
  Suzanne studied voice and performed in Italy at the Spoleto Vocal Arts Festival, was a soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra, a soloist at the Rose Theatre in Jazz at Lincoln Center & toured the country with the national tour of Ragtime and Cameron Machintosh's Oliver!
  She has been nominated for a MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) Award for Best Female Cabaret Debut and performs regularly at the Metropolitan Room in addition to a variety of musical venues in Manhattan.