Lisa Bush Finn

Here are some family comments about Lisa, along with her bio:

"We have attended Lisa's class in Alameda for more than 6 sessions since my daughter was 14 months old. We keep taking Lisa's class! Lisa always greets us with a big smile which makes us feel welcomed. She is very enthusiastic, good with children, gives parents helpful musical development advise. We really enjoy her class!" ~Y.R.

"We love Lisa because she is very energetic, friendly, makes the music very lively for the babies and gives info or tips about the music in between the songs for parents!! We (me and 18mnth old girl) were "big musicians" in her classroom." ~ S.L.

"Our teacher was Lisa from the Alameda classes. She is wonderful, gentle, welcoming, engaging, all inclusive . She made a life long impression on our daughter, who took her classes from 9 months to 2 and a half and still sings the songs every day. Ella's love of music stems from Lisa's gifts as a teacher." ~M.A.

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Lisa Bush Finn grew up bi-coastally, in Cambridge, MA & Sacramento, CA. She received her B.A. from Bennington College in Vermont. During the ensuing 15 years, while living in New York City, she was a member of the Wendy Perron Dance Co. and also performed and toured nationally and internationally with several other choreographers and performance artists, including as a singer in a cabaret production and at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. She discovered Music Together in Brooklyn with her first child.

After moving to the Bay Area in 1996, Lisa attended two other early childhood music programs with her two kids, until 1998, when Music Together was first offered in the Bay Area by Julie Tanenbaum. She became a Registered Music Together teacher in 1999 and, in 2006, was awarded Certification Level 1.

Lisa still performs, appearing in the works of several Bay Area choreographers, including Carol Kueffer, Dana Lee Lawton, Randee Paufve, Jill Randall, and Alisa Rasera. She is a founding member of Nina Haft & Company, with whom she was on-tour in the Middle East in April 2010. She has also done choreography for Virago Theatre’s productions of Candide, The Threepenny Opera, The Death of Ayn Rand, and Mankind’s Last Hope, for Jasper Productions’ Anatomy, as well as for Alameda Children’s Musical Theater’s productions of Alice and High School Musical.

Lisa also teaches movement for actors at the Virago Theatre Conservatory, and is a dance and theater teaching artist in local schools through the Creative Education Institute.