About Your Teacher

Sally Sloane

Sally Sloane, founder of Sloane’s Kindermusik of Oak Park, has been a licensed Kindermusik educator since 1995. She has a D.M.A. in organ and harpsichord from the American Conservatory of Music, Chicago, an M.M. degree in organ from American Conservatory, and a B.M. degree in Music Education from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is Minister of Music at the Riverside Presbyterian Church and maintains a private piano studio in her Oak Park home. She has taught piano by the Talent Education (Suzuki) method since 1978. From 1979 until 1987 she sang with the Chicago Choral Artists under the direction of the late James Rogner. Dr. Sloane has served on the faculties of Sherwood Conservatory of Music, The Suzuki Music Academy of Chicago, and Hinsdale Public Schools District 181. In 1991 her doctoral dissertation, Music for Two or More Players at One or More Keyboard Instruments (Harpsichord, Clavichord, Organ) was published by Greenwood Press. Sally is the mother of three teenage boys.

If you give a child a fish, you feed him for a day,
If you teach a child to fish, you feed him for life.