Singing House

Jane Singhal is a violinist and violin instructor in Belmont, CA. She holds a B.A. in music from Yale and an M.A. in Russian Studies from Princeton. Jane began her teaching career as a Strings instructor at Ecole Alexandra in London, Ontario, and a violin and French specialist at The Vail-Deane School in Mountainside, New Jersey. After moving to the Bay Area, she offered group music and movement classes for many years to toddlers through first graders, and taught composition to second and third grade students at an elementary school in Belmont.

Creature Feature, Miss Jane’s Children and Classical Stories grew out of her years teaching music to children. Red Light, Stop!, was inspired by a movement song written for her youngest students, whose usual response when they did it in class was, "Again!" Kitchen Concert is from her own experience cooking and singing at the same time.

Jane and her husband live twenty minutes away from the exuberant California Pacific, the source of inspiration for The Jolly Ocean.

Wherever she has lived, there has always been music and song in Jane’s home, which one of her very first students called "the singing house."