SATURDAY, JULY 7 - FRIDAY, JULY 13, 2012
Rochester, Vermont
2011 Piano Teachers
Katie Hooper 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 teaches at Middlebury College as well as running a Suzuki studio. She has both an MM in piano performance and an MM in early music from Indiana University, and has studied extensively in Austria. Cynthia 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."
Joan Krzywicki has a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Indiana University where she also carried a second major in Piano Performance. She also holds a Master of Music degree from Youngstown State University. She has been a Suzuki piano teacher since 1981 and became an official SAA Teacher Trainer in 1993. In addition to a home studio, she does teacher training classes at Temple University. Joan has had the opportunity to visit Matsumoto, Japan, and observe both Dr. Suzuki and Dr. Kataoka teach at the Talent Education Institute. She has also taught at workshops and institutes throughout the U.S. and in Canada, England, Sweden, and Argentina. Joan was also the Coordinator for Piano for the 2010 International Conference of the Suzuki Association of the Americas.
Renee Robbins maintains an active piano studio in Ann Arbor, where she teaches piano students of all ages, trains other Suzuki teachers and performs chamber music, performing with a variety of other musicians in many settings. Recently she organized members of the Ann Arbor Area Piano Teachers Guild (of which she is a past president) in two performances of two-piano music at Kerrytown Concert House and at the Michigan Music Teachers Association convention. In the fall of 2010 she organized a playathon fundraiser for the music program of the New Victorian School in Port au Prince, Haiti. She holds a B.A. from the Eastman School of Music in piano performance, an M.S.W. in social treatment from the University of Michigan and an M.A. from Eastern Michigan University in piano accompaniment. Renée has studied piano with José Échaniz and Joseph Gurt. She continues her study of chamber music throughout the United States at summer workshops. Her two sons, both grown, were Suzuki violin students and now her grandchildren are continuing the tradition!
Marilyn Taggart 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.