• Founder

    I left Idaho in 1996 to go to Minneapolis, Minnesota, for 2 years of graduate school. School led to a job that I love and so I stayed. In January of 2010, I started taking tai chi classes and I loved it. I’ve been a teaching assistant for my teacher’s beginning classes since September 2010 and in 2012 I took the teacher training course. I'm now a Senior Trainer and assist with workshops here new instructors are trained. I’m a voice teacher, tai chi teacher, artist, writer, gardener, and seminary student at Meadville Lombard Theological School. When I returned to Soda Springs I got with a group of other like-minded people and we started our little garden project.

Meet the Founder

Jeannine Robinett grew up in a home filled with music and was singing in Italian before she knew the ABC song.  Her love of music was not limited to just singing.   At the young age of 4, she heard her first pipe organ and decided that she wanted to play that instrument.  Her parents soon started her in piano lessons and several years later, she began organ lessons.  While in college, she took piano lessons, voice lessons, and organ lessons in addition to being active in choral and musical theatre activities. 

Jeannine Robinett holds an Associates of Arts and Science degree from Ricks College in Organ Performance, a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Idaho State University, and a Masters of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Minnesota.   

As a graduate assistant at the University of Minnesota, she taught class voice and private voice lessons, and coordinated the elective voice program. Jeannine taught at Inver Hills Community College from 2001 to 2005 where, in addition to voice lessons, she had the opportunity to teach class voice, music appreciation, and design a new course--Women in Music.   

Jeannine taught for 22 years at Eastview High School in Apple Valley, MN, where students could leave their choir classes once a week for private or small group instruction.  During the early months of the pandemic, her studio moved totally online.  She continues to teach Eastview students online in addition to students in her Idaho studio.  

 


  • Founder

    Jeannine and her mother Annie are pictured here together. Together with the Soda Springs community they were able to start the Soda Springs Community Gardens.