Our Teachers

Claudia McDowell, the creative director and owner of Keiki Crescendo completed her year apprenticeship with Carla Waterfield in 2003 and has Musikgarten Certification and Early Childhood Music & Movement Association Certification.

She currently teaches Family Music for Babies, Toddlers, Cycle of Seasons and Keyboard, which has earned her the Musikgarten Exemplary Program award 3 consecutive years.

Originally from Heidelberg, Germany but a Hawaiian at heart. Being brought up in a "Sound of Music family, where "MUSIK" was everpresent, she has studied piano, voice, guitar, ukulele and recently added the flute to the list.