Kindermusik with Jan - Jan Holt

Biography

I was born in London, England. My family moved to Hong Kong when I was 3 and returned when I was 6 to Lindfield, West Sussex where I was raised. My mother took me to see ‘The Sound of Music’ five times. The picture of Julie Andrews sitting on a hilltop with a guitar singing to a group of children has never left me.

I decided to pursue a career as a School Teacher and took my degree at the University of Exeter where I also received a scholarship to study voice. My spare time was taken up in the local ‘Gilbert and Sullivan Society’. When I graduated, I took up a teaching post in Surbiton. I had my own class, but taught music throughout the school. This work included running recorder groups, choirs and entering local music festivals.

In 1987, I moved to Cambridge, Ontario, Canada to become a part of The Academy of Performing Arts. As part of the Music Company, I had time to write and perform musicals. I was also able to run workshops for the children of families that visited the Academy.

I discovered Kindermusik in Cambridge, Ontario. I realised that this programme could encompass my love for music, children and the best of what I had enjoyed about teaching. I trained there and shortly after returned to the UK in 1998 with my husband and 4 children to be near family again.
 

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I have been running Kindermusik® with Jan since January 1999 with now over 200 children every week from our Centre in Burgess Hill, West Sussex. I run all the programmes including Summer Camps and Music Box in the Schools with the help of my husband who is my administrator/trained educator plus two other trained educators. We are planning to set up a second studio in Brighton, East Sussex, in 2005.

Further information:

www.kindermusikwjan.co.uk
 

 

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