Green Mountain Suzuki Institute July 11-July 16, 2010

2010 Piano Teachers

Katie Hooper (piano) maintains an active Suzuki studio in Saratoga Springs, NY. In addition to regular studio recitals, all of her students participate in a chamber festival and a Capital District Contemporary Music Recital every year. She is also the high school choral music director at The Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs. She holds a BM from Ohio Wesleyan University. She has traveled extensively throughout the world and enjoys the outdoors.

Cynthia Huard (piano) teaches at Middlebury College as well as running a Suzuki studio. She is the Artistic Director of the Rochester Chamber Music Society. Devoted to chamber music and collaborative music making, she has performed with the Lark Quartet, chamber players of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, and the National Symphony, among others, and has met and played for "Mr. Rogers."

Phyllis Kraunz (piano) maintains an active Suzuki studio in Dover, NH, where she teaches students of all ages. She accompanies a children's chorus, has been active in the SAA for 25 years and holds a BM from the University of Michigan. In her spare time she loves to ski, run and play tennis.

Marina Obukovsky (piano) received her M.M. (cum laude) from Kharkov Conservatory, Ukraine, and her B.M. from Kharkov Music College. Ms. Obukovsky is a former piano faculty member of Kharkov Conservatory and the Special Music School for Gifted Children. She has performed solo and chamber music recitals throughout Ukraine and Russia and has served as an accompanist for the four National Opera Competitions. Ms. Obukovsky has lived in New York since 1993 and currently holds faculty positions at Mannes College (Preparatory Division) and The School for Strings. Ms. Obukovsky completed her long-term Suzuki training at The School for Strings with Sheila Keats, and some supplementary pedagogy courses with Mary Craig Powell. Furthermore, she holds a faculty position at Hartt Suzuki Institute, taught at New England Suzuki Institute, Maine, and frequently teaches workshops at Queens College (NY), The Hartt School (CT), and Bermuda. Many of Ms. Obukovsky's students have participated in masterclasses at National Suzuki Conferences and have won top prizes in various New York competitions. At the last National Suzuki Conference in Minneapolis her student was chosen to perform Mozart Concerto with the orchestra. In her spare time she loves traveling around the globe, reading, going to the theater and movies.

Anne Marie Olson (piano) teaches on the piano faculty at Rockford College Music Academy in Rockford, Illinois, where she is also staff accompanist for the Suzuki string and flute program. She is on the piano and chamber summer faculty of Kankakee Valley Piano and Chamber Music Camp. Her first piano teacher for many years was her father, Bruce Headlee. Other teachers have included Grace Welsh and Marilyn Taggart and Bruce Berr. She happily spends every waking moment passionately pursuing her two favorite activities: playing piano and listening to her students play piano.

Renee Robbins (piano) maintains an active studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she teaches piano students of all ages, trains other Suzuki teachers, and plays and performs chamber music. Her teaching at Suzuki workshops around this country, in Bermuda, and in Israel has included private lessons, chamber music coaching and teacher training.

Marilyn Taggart (piano) began piano study before the age of five with her pianist mother and later attended Oberlin, Converse, and Catholic University (M.Mus.), becoming a Suzuki piano teacher in 1978. In addition to giving workshops and Institute teaching, Mrs. Taggart is a contributor to the book Teaching Suzuki Piano: Ten Teachers' Viewpoints. Her students have won numerous awards and performed at both SAA and International Suzuki conventions.

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