Kate Patterson has been active in the study or leading of music for as long as she can remember. She attended Augusta College in Augusta, GA. where she earned a Bachelors in Music Education. She also holds a Masters Degree in Education from Lesley University, Cambridge MA., with an emphasis on integrating the arts into curriculum and instruction. She taught elementary music for twenty three years, twenty one of those years in the Mat-Su Valley. Her major instrument was voice and she also enjoys playing trombone.  She has lived in Alaska since 1992 and is a firm believer in community music.  Having been active in leading Church music and participating in many community music groups over the years she believes there should be a place for persons of varying abilities to be able to express themselves musically. She received the 2012 Palmer Arts Council Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of her musical service to the community. She was the conductor of the Matanuska Susitna Orchestra, a community group with the mission of “making music make a difference,"  2006 - 2024.  Kate has been teaching Music Together^® since 2015.

Hannah Smith graduated in 2007 with a BA in Ethnomusicology and came to Alaska in 2008.  As a full-time nanny she would bring her kids to Music Together classes.  Finding a love for integrating music and movement with her already strong passion for early childhood, she became a Music Together teacher in 2009. After 5 years of teaching Music Together classes in the community she is now the Center Director and owner of Timbre Music Studio.