Gila Vinokur was born, raised and educated in South Africa. Gila has been involved with every aspect of musical theater, from performing to production to directing. She is well-known in the Dallas area for her superb direction of "Fiddler on the Roof," "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" 'Shushan Rock", "I Believe", "Alice in Wonderland" and "Annie."

Gila is a Registered Music Together Teacher and is also the owner of the very successful Center Stage Drama, offering drama classes to children ages 3-18 years.

Gila lives in North Dallas with her 10-year-old red head, Ariella. Children and adults love her fun-loving, silly, South African style! Gila also does Musical Birthday Parties.

Karen began playing the piano at the age of six she also trained vocally through highschool and college while pursuing a degree in Animation and minoring in Piano Performance. After returning to Dallas, she started to teach Suzuki piano and received a Masters in Music Education from Southern Methodist University. Karen designed and ran a study involving children’s response to music when given visual stimulae, directed a children’s bell choir, and started her own piano studio in the Dallas area. She now directs most of her time to teaching piano privately and making concept art for comics and video games.

All of this may sound lofty and accomplished, but let’s face it: Karen mostly likes to get down on the kids level and sing and dance. She loves to make silly faces and nothing makes her happier than making kids laugh and have fun while learning. When one of her new piano parents told her about Music Together, she went to one of Gila’s classes and was sold on the program immediately! Now she can’t wait to roll around on the floor and sing with all of her new friends!

Sherry Lien comes from a musical family and started to play piano when she was little. She graduated from Texas Woman's University with A degree in music. Ms. Lien has been teaching children for over 15 years, she loves to play and sing with youngster's in a musical way. She believes music is like vitamins for the growing brain. When her daughter was little, one of her students told her about Music Together, they went the class and loved it so much. Now, she teaches piano and Music Together, and best of all, she loves to sing and dance in Music Together with many happy families.

Sherry lives with her husband and her little girl, Nana, who likes to dance and be a fairy.

Anita Messica was raised in an Anglo Indian music loving community, her grandpa played the violin as they sat around singing his favourites. Her mom sang at bedtime, and just about every chance to her and her siblings, while Dad drummed with the newspaper, on the tables, radio, pots and pans, and on the kids if possible. At the tender age of 4 she had voice training. Music is spritual and bonding. Today as a mother of 5 she finds joy in watching her sons play keyboard, guitar, bass, cello and the sax. Her little daughters love to dance and sing so much that her cellphone ringer is set to the girls singing twinkle twinkle little star. She adores little tots and finds being a MT teacher to be extremely fullfilling. She lives in Plano with her 5 amazing children.

Emily Brinks has sung and danced all of her life. She began ballet training at age 7, then went on to add singing and acting to her repertoire of skills. She studied music and journalism at the University of Oklahoma, then went on to earn a Masters in Voice performance and pedagogy from the prestigious Indiana University School of Music. She has performed professionally in opera, concert and musical theater in the United States and in Germany.
Having an active little boy gave Emily a whole new perspective on music. She learned firsthand how important music is in a young child’s development, and experienced the delight of seeing her own child’s responses to a musical environment at the Musikschule in Berlin. Upon moving to Boca Raton, Florida, Emily felt a calling to bring this type of opportunity to children there. She began to teach music to groups of parents and young children, as well as to preschool classes.
Now living in Plano with her husband and 8-year-old son, Emily is excited about building new musical relationships with families through Music Together Dallas!

Wife and mother of three (20, 18, and 9), and an independent Gospel Recording Artist. Josette Ables is a native of CT recently relocated to TX a little over a year ago. Josette has a musical background leading back to her childhood singing in a family group formed by her father. She grew up singing in many competitions, musical plays, conferences, and preformed many workshops for church praise teams and church choirs. Josette has also taught vocal/voice lessons. In 2007 Josette released her first Gospel CD entitled “My Song of Worship”. Radio stations in the northeast have given her album airplay and she has made live appearances at churches in many states including the great state of TX.
Josette is excited about the next phase of her life which includes her musical journey with Music Together. Josette is dedicated to making this experience an educational, growing, fun and life impacting experience now and many years to come. Check out her website