Staff Biographies

After I graduated high school, I had a hard time choosing either preschool children’s education or music as my major. I finally took music, however there was no end to my interest in preschool children’s education.
Throughout the time I was in high school and college I had a great opportunity to work at a kindergarten school as an assistant teacher where my mother also works as the principal. I learned so many things by having this experience. I also received very useful advice from my mother and I’m still receiving good advice to assist me in providing great classes at the Nippon Community Center.
For many children-students this class is the first experience been separated from their mothers and having contact alone with a stranger to learn social behavior. Therefore, the most important objective of my class is that children feel secured and learn in a safe environment. I also believe it is important for them to learn polite manners such as greetings, saying thank you and I’m sorry, and so on. In class I am not only teaching crafts by cutting, pasting and painting, but also incorporating auditory training by using my expertise and achievement as a graduate of Musashino College of Music.
I developed an interest in Jazz while attending high school in Japan and listening to radio: Weather report, M.J.Q, and so on. After entering Musashino College of Music, while I studied Classic Music, Billy Holiday’s album “Lady in satin” touched me. Then I planned to become a Jazz singer. During the time when I was in the college I started singing with top level musicians such as Akimoto Kaoru Band, Yanagisawa Shinichi Band (Bass: Takao Neichi, tp: Akio Mitsui, cl: Eiji Hanaoka, a.sax: Akio IIgarashi).
After I graduated college I started singing at live houses and Jazz clubs in Tokyo and also sang together with top players in New York such as Hilliard Greene. I also performed at Jazz Singer’s Showcase in The Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex. People made a great appraisal.
Now I live in New York and in addition to teaching kindergarten classes I also teach Jazz Vocal classes at Nippon Community Center while I continue my personal education and vigorously develop in Madoka World. My sincere desire is that this kindergarten class will become the children’s first bridge from their home toward their future in social life.