Michael is a performing pianist, accompanist, and instructor with over 12 years of teaching experience. Michael earned a Masters in piano performance at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and his BA in piano at California State University Northridge. He served throughout his career as an accompanist for church settings, including the landmark Old St. Mary's Cathedral, as well as for Opera a la Carte, the Gilbert and Sullivan Touring Company. He enjoys chamber group and recital competitions, performing solo recitals, and collaborating in concert with vocalists and other instrumentalists. In addition to serving his students, Michael currently works as accompanist for Tacoma Opera and at St. Anne's Parish on Queen Anne Hill.

Viktoriya received her Bachelors degree in piano teaching and a Masters in piano teaching, chamber ensemble solo and accompaniment from Donetsk Musical College in the Ukraine. She started teaching piano performance at Donetsk Children's Music School #6 upon completion of her studies and was named head of the piano department. She also worked as an accompanist for violinists, chamber ensembles, vocalists, and other solo musicians. After coming to the United States, she accepted a teaching position at Music Discovery School and had taught there for almost five years before the school became Arts In Motion. Currently Viktoriya is a church musician at Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Church and teaches piano at her studio in Shoreline. Viktoriya is a member of the Seattle Music Teachers Association and has been teaching piano for 38 years.

Natalie majored in painting at the University of Washington and transferred to Parson's school of Design in New York where she studied painting, sculpture, ceramics and photography. Upon returning to Seattle she entered a teacher certification program and later completed her studies with a Masters in Education from Antioch University. Natalie's teaching career includes 15 years of teaching art and interdisciplinary curriculum in public and private schools, museums, enrichment programs, to prospective teachers in certification programs and as professional development for educators. At her studio in the Central District, Natalie paints architectural portraits of the urban environment and writes and illustrates children's books.

Begin has been an active musician in the Northwest for many years. In her early years she participated in the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra, summer music festivals including the Master Works Festival in New York and Marrowstone Music Festival in Port Townsend and Bellingham, WA. She received her Bachelors of Musical Arts degree in 2004 from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, with a focus on researching the early music of Heinrich Biber. Ms. Scarseth has played with many groups in the Northwest and is currently a member of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra and a string quartet she founded called Serendipity Strings. For the last four years, she has maintained teaching studios in Issaquah and Lynnwood.

Kristin earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music at Seattle Pacific University, where she studied under Mary Kantor. Through her college career and in the years following, she has been involved with teaching all ages in a range of environments, from early music classes for infants and parents, to private clarinet lessons and one-on-one music lessons for students with special needs. She regularly performs with community orchestras and chamber groups throughout the Seattle area, and recently played two concert tours with singer Michael W. Smith around the Pacific Northwest. Kristin is excited to work at Arts In Motion, sharing her love of music with her students.

Known for her kind and patient teaching style, Sheree has been studying, teaching and performing music and dance of Zimbabwe for nearly 40 years. Since 1983, Sheree has been instrumental in developing and augmenting several African drum and dance ensembles in the Northwest. She has taught in many settings, including 31 years at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, Spruce Street School, the Giddens School, U-Coop School, Seattle Public Schools, and at festivals and colleges around the country. Sheree loves African music and hopes to share the joy she finds in it with the world.

Amanda received her Bachelor of Music from the University of North Texas. During her years at North Texas she played and performed around the Denton/Dallas area, teaching private lessons and group instrumental music to children and seniors. She is certified to teach music K-12 and was assistant band director at Berta Cabaza Middle School, Texas. Her musical studies include classical music at the University of Keele, England and a summer in Ghana to study the musical culture of the Ewe people. She has completed a Masters in Ethnomusicology at the University of Washington and is finishing up her Doctorate in Music Education, where she is currently involved in a university community partnership in the Yakima Valley.

Kent is a music educator and composer who has worked with choirs and other musicians in the Pacific Northwest for more than 25 years. Kent founded several choirs and has been choral director for numerous Seattle area churches. His extensive background includes theatre, gospel, jazz, children's choirs, composition, concert production and performance. A composer of and collaborator on original works with the Seattle Peace Chorus, City Cantabile Choir, Urban Rhythms Choir, and the Giddens School where he conducts the weekly “Morning Sing!”, Kent is presently the director of the Mount Zion Brotherhood Chorus, director of the Shades of Praise Choir and the Jubilation Choir of St Therese Catholic Church, and the St Therese School Choir. Kent and his choirs have performed in Germany, Austria the Czech Republic, Russia, China, The Bahamas, Brazil and France.

Felicia comes to Arts In Motion with a desire to share her love for the arts and to inspire the children she works with to become more expressive in the arts. This passion was cultivated by her musical family providing exposure and opportunities in the opera, symphony and ballet. One such opportunity, through the Seattle Public Schools, resulted in an eight-year scholarship to attend Cornish College of the Arts Preparatory Dance Program. This experience led her to continue her study of dance in early adulthood at the Alvin Ailey Dance Center in New York before returning to finish her BA in Communication with a concentration in drama at Northwest College. Felicia strives to cultivate in children the ability to be expressive and creative.

Abby graduates this spring with her B.F.A. in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts. A dedicated and passionate teacher, Abby has gained valuable experience in choreography, teaching, and movement analysis to provide her students a shared language of dance and dance concepts. Abby finds great joy in teaching dance and movement classes to children, and has traveled with The Good Foot to teach underpriviledged children in the Philippines and Laos. Abby loves the process of working with children and youth, but also performing. She has extensive ballet training with both Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet, many times performing with PNB as a Professional Division student there.

Owuor Arunga is a native of Kisumu Kenya. As a graduate of the New School University, he was awarded the opportunity to play with the beacons of jazz. Acknowledged for his talent and his ability to absorb the knowledge of his elders, Owuor was branded with the title, "Young Lion". Upon his return to Seattle, Owuor has become an artist eager to spread the vibrations of beauty he has come to be in tune with and has assembled a local group of equally talented young artists. From his origin as a member of the acclaimed Garfield High School Jazz Band, Owuor has since played around the United States and toured countries around the world including Canada, Europe and South Africa.