About

WOW! Music Studios was founded in 2005 by husband-and-wife team, Tommy Toy and Emily Siskin-Toy, who wanted to create a totally unique music education experience for people of all ages interested in playing music.
WOW! Music Studios' mission is to inspire people to express themselves musically and create positive cultural change through music.

Emily Siskin-Toy, Co-Founder
Emily holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and oversees all of WOW! Music Studios’ operations. She spent six years in Los Angeles working as a writer and editor for several film and television magazines before returning to Mill Valley where she was raised.
Building a business in her old stomping grounds that focuses on teaching children goes hand in hand with one of Emily’s life-long passions: Playing and coaching girls team sports. You might see her around town coaching CYO girls basketball or Mill Valley Girls Softball, something she has been doing since 2003.

escaped the corporate world to pursue his life-long mission: To inspire people to play music. WOW! Music Studios represents the union of his passions for entrepreneurialism, music and social change.
Tommy graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and developed marketing programs and campaigns for a variety of Fortune 500 companies for 15 years before starting WOW! Music Studios with his wife and college sweetheart, Emily Siskin-Toy.