About Us
Wouldn't it be great if, when your child was born, you were handed a manual and were told what to do, how to do it, and how to bring out the best in your child?
As a parent in the Inner West of Sydney I understand that you want the best for your child in this great area. Our classes service the Inner West area specifically Erskineville/Newtown, Balmain, Marrickville and Glebe. Kindermusik® is a fun educational journey that helps explore and unlock your child's potential.
Kindermusik® caters for all children and our classes are warm, educational, supportive and best of all, great musical fun! -- Tina Harris
Our Directors
Tina Harris 
director/teacher
Tina is a mother, teacher and performer. A graduate of both Wollongong University (Bachelor of Creative Arts) and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (Diploma of Operatic Arts, Master of Performance).
Tina has taught children both internationally and locally, having been based in Japan for two years before returning to her position as vocal tutor at SCEGGS Darlinghurst school in Sydney, where she taught for four years. Tina has also run small group singing classes at Australia Street Infants School in Newtown as well as having worked as a tutor for the Sydney Children's Choir.
More recently as a performer Tina has co-created, with husband Mark, the children's band Lah-Lah. Lah-Lah performs live, proms format concerts for preschool aged children and has recently recorded and filmed a CD (Shake It Like This, 2008) and DVD (Lah-Lah's Big Live Band, 2009), which will be broadcast, from September 2009, on Australia's premier pre-school subscription network Nick Jr. Visit www.lah-lah.com for more information.
Tina brings her love of music and singing to Kindermusik® with her classes servicing the main Inner West areas specifically Newtown, Erskineville, Glebe, Marrickville, Earlwood and Balmain.
As both mother and teacher Tina realised the need for the highest quality musical experience for children to share and enjoy with their families in the inner West area.
Lah-Lah's Music Place, a wonderful and fun musical foundation for the future. Supporting learning in all areas of development and providing the highest quality home materials, Kindermusik® is the best place to be!
Mark Harris
director/administrator
Mark is a double bassist and vocalist working in Sydney's jazz and world music scenes. He is currently a member of triple ARIA winnig gypsy band Monsieur Camembert as well as being the co-creator of Lah-Lah with Tina.
High profile jazz acts such as the James Morrison Sextet and Sydney seasons of Broadway shows such as Wicked and The Lion King area regular feature of Mark's schedule.
In the realms of education and entertaining little people Mark is well experienced, having been on staff at Sydney Grammar School for around ten years as a jazz educator. In addition to this, Mark has performed for the Musica Viva In Schools program with Latin American band Tigramuna and has performed in many of the widely praised Babies Proms series at the Sydney Opera House. The same series in which Lah-Lah will have a season in May 2010.
Our Teachers
Helen Saltos
Helen is a performer, teacher and a mother. She studied Drama and English at The University of Newcastle (BA) and then opera at Sydney Conservatorium of music (Dip. Op and Post grad Dip Op). She is recently returned from five and a half years in London where she was performing, teaching, continuing her musical education and starting a family.
Helen’s performing credits include concerts in the South Pacific, Australia, and the UK. She was a solo artist with Opera Australia’s Schools Company for three years in Victoria and NSW (Hansel and Gretel, and The Barber of Seville) and touring company manager for one year. Other credits include associate director and first lady in The Magic Flute(UK),The Telephone(NIDA), and Les Mamelles de Tirésias in the Australian premiere of that opera. In Newcastle, Helen was involved with drama and musicals for children as well as opera which she began as a child in Noyee’s Fludde.
As a teacher of voice Helen has taught in private studios in Sydney and London and for three years at St. Catherine’s Girl school in Sydney. In London she began a vocal ensemble for adults at Goodenough College.
Helen’s awards include the George and Nerissa Johnson Bequest, the Helpman family scholarship, the Geoffrey Rothwell scholarship and the Doris Smith Scholarship.
As a singer, Helen feels strongly about exposing children to music from an early age and allowing them fulfilling and rewarding musical experiences. As a teacher, she enjoys observing the childhood development that music and movement support. As a mother, she appreciates the focus and bonding of parental and child interaction through musical experience.
Sarifa Miller
Sarifa's involvement in music for young people originated at the Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick where, for five years, she has been a Redkite music therapist developing group and individual music programs for babies, children and young people of various backgrounds.
Sarifa is also an experienced educator. Musically Sarifa teaches both guitar and keyboard privately and further afield she has taught English language to children and adults in Japan and Japanese language in Australia.
Sarifa holds a Graduate Diploma of Music Therapy from the University of Technology Sydney and is currently completing her Master of Arts in Music Therapy.
