Meryl Danziger, the Founder and Director of Music House, has taught music for twenty years in public and private schools in the United States and abroad. Formerly Chairman of the Music Department at the Little Red School House in NYC, Meryl now devotes her time to Music House. She is a published songwriter whose original songs, stories and plays delight children of all ages. Her articles on education and music education have appeared in "NEA Today" as well as in Homeschooling journals around the country.

Meryl spent the first fifteen years of her life as an untrained musician. She grew up surrounded by musical people, in an environment filled with classical and folk music. As a child, Meryl learned piano and guitar by ear. At the age of fifteen, after hearing a violinist in concert, she began lessons in a flurry of inspiration. This led to a twenty-five year career as a professional violinist in chamber groups and orchestras around the world.

After teaching private violin lessons for many years, Meryl began to question whether this type of study was really the best way for most children to become musically involved. When she began teaching general music in public school in 1985, Meryl felt as though she’d come out of a tunnel. Here was a chance to teach lots of kids lots of musical things. Over the next fifteen years, she developed her own unique approach to music education.

All musical and educational paths led to the creation of The Music House in 2000. Begun as an experiment with one disillusioned seven year-old – a private lesson dropout – the program is growing and thriving. Through this approach, skeptical adults to child geniuses are finding their musical souls, and no one is more delighted than the founder herself.

Meryl's other passions include dancing, jamming on electric bass and spending time with her three musical daughters and two musical granddaughters, with whom making up songs and stories is a constant activity.