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Title
- Music Connections of Bloomington-Normal
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Kathryn Henderson, owner/director of Music Connections of Bloomington-Normal, has been a licensed, trained Kindermusik ® teacher since 1993. Katie earned a degree in piano performance from Illinois State University and has worked with children in varying musical capacities for more than 20 years. Prior to relocating to the Chicago area in 1989, she had a successful music studio in Bloomington-Normal for many years. While in the Chicago area, Katie taught piano for College of DuPage, maintained a large studio of private students, was recruited often as a vocal coach and accompanist, and directed children's church choirs. In 1993, Wheaton College sought out Katie to teach Kindermusik in the pre-college music department of over 800 children.
When her husband was transferred to Bloomington in 1994, Katie began Bloomington-Normal's only Kindermusik program in her home with 28 students. Just eight years later, Katie's company hosts nearly 500 students with a faculty of nine teachers and a program administrator. Music Connections was recently named to Kindermusik International's prestigious Maestro Program as one of the top 25 programs nationwide and abroad.
Katie's teaching staff, holding degrees varying from exercise physiology to mathematics to professional musicians, have all been licensed and trained through Kindermusik International. When asked about the teachers, Katie states, "I have an incredible staff of teachers. Early on it was hard to let go of some of my personal teaching responsibilities. I was afraid of losing families that had been so long in my 'care.' What I have learned, and what I hear repeatedly from my families, is that my staff is top notch, that they hold the same high professional standards as I do, each one shares in my passion to reach children and families through the power of music, and I am very proud to call all of them my colleagues and my friends."
