She holds Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in music education from the University of Iowa and an undergraduate music education degree from Northwestern University. Her school music teaching experience includes teaching beginning, middle and high school instrumental music in Illinois and Wisconsin. Dr. Levy taught early childhood music in western Maryland where she also founded a New Horizons Band for elderly musicians. She directs music instruction and conducts the New Horizons Band of Western New York, a band and music lesson program for “chronologically gifted” adults (50 and over).