Our Teachers
Sarah Kay Peters grew up on goat farms in Wisconsin and Colorado, and music was always central to her family gatherings. Sarah received her degree in Theatre Acting/Directing from Mesa State College in Grand Junction, CO. While in Chicago working as a theatre actor, she taught several early childhood music programs at the Old Town School of Folk Music. She is a founding member of Song Weavers, an a capella song/chant group that has performed in Sebastapol, CA, New York City, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Sarah, who has been with Play since 2005, brings guitar, bodhran (an Irish frame drum), flute, and a love for world music into her parent-and-child music classes---including her own program, World Citizen Baby, which she developed at Play. When not teaching, Sarah can be found playing capoeira, a Brazilian martial art. Sarah's CD, Rest My Love, lullabies from around the world, is available at Play and on iTunes.
Keith Colacicco began his musical career as a 7-year-old when he performed the song "Wild Thing" on his electric guitar for classmates and faculty at his elementary school. The experience began a lifelong fascination with musical performance and an appreciation for the role that music can play in child development. Keith grew up in Huntington, New York, in a family that fostered creative expression in the arts. As a teenager, he studied guitar with industry professionals and played at local venues. A passion for the arts led Keith to the University of Southern California, where he studied both music and film. Keith has been teaching music classes at Play since January 2007, and can also be found making a name for himself in the local music scene of his adopted hometown of Venice, California.
Angie Engelbart is a transplant to southern California from the midwest and has been teaching at Play since March of 2009. A native of Iowa farm country, she most recently lived in Kansas City, where she was the soprano apprentice with the Kansas City Lyric Opera. She appeared as Papagena in that company's production of Die Zauberflöte in the spring of 2008 and has a broad resume of opera and musical theater roles to her credit, including recent stints at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. Besides stagework, Angie has several years of experience teaching private voice and piano lessons, and maintained a studio of undergraduate voice students at the University of Kansas. She also particularly enjoys working with young children and has worked (and played!) extensively with them at music schools in the Kansas City area. Angie received her B.A. in music from the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, MN, and her masters of music from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. When she's not tackling musical endeavors, Angie can be found hiking, cooking, or flying home to Minneapolis to nurse her inner farmgirl and play in the snow with her family.
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