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Born to a musical family, Jeannine grew up in a multi-instrumental and multi-cultured home. She began formal classical training at the age of 7, studying the violin and singing in choir. Informally, she sang in the church gospel choir. She continued her education in music throughout her teens at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, and later attended the University of Missouri School of Music, where she played violin in the University of Missouri Philharmonic. Throughout her life, she has continued this pattern of formal and informal development, with the help of teachers and collaborators far and wide. Ever pushing the boundaries of her own comfort zone, Jeannine took an interest in improvisation and started moonlighting with country, blues, bluegrass, and rock bands around Missouri, while studying jazz theory and improv in college. She has toured and traveled as an artist and teacher - though she is always a perpetual student of music. Jeannine has been a strings teacher for 9 years. During a pandemic-enforced break from teaching, Jeannine moved to Colorado and ended up meeting her husband and birthing two beautiful little humans. Jeannine and her husband co-lead a band together called The Canary Initiative.   

Jeannine is thrilled to return to teaching. She uses a student-led, goal-oriented approach to learning, involving modern music, improvisation, and playing by ear while leaning on scaffolding from traditional pedagogy and Suzuki method. Jeannine focuses on helping students learn the music that inspires them by getting into the nuts and bolts of how it's made (theory), how it's played (technique), and what may have inspired it (music history). Learning music is not only fun, but teaches you discipline, cooperation, math, science, history, language, courage, self-esteem, emotional literacy, and self care. It is truly a lifelong journey that connects you to universal humanity and divinity. Jeannine also teaches secondary instruments piano, viola, and cello.