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Piano Staff
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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. |
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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." |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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Violin/Viola Staff
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Alison Eldredge (violin) started violin training with the Suzuki method in 1965 in Ohio. She graduated from the University of British Columbia, and played in I Musici de Montreal, the Barcelona Orchestra, and is currently playing in the Xalapa Symphony in Mexico. Her Suzuki teacher trainers include Craig Timmerman, Michelle George and Joan Reuning. She has a private studio in Xalapa and enjoys returning to Vermont in the summer for music camps.
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Gretchen Judge (violin, viola) has taught strings in Hudson Falls, NY and Hartford, VT. She was also on the faculty of Adirondack Community College and The Upper Valley Music Center. She is a registered Suzuki violin teacher and has taught at Suzuki institutes in VT and NH. Mrs. Judge is an active NYSSMA adjudicator and guest conductor. She currently lives in Rochester, NY where she has a private studio and enjoys time at home with her young sons.
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Francine Kenney (violin) has studied Suzuki pedagogy with Ed Kreitman, Ed Sprunger, and Carrie Reuning-Hummel. She teaches 30 violin and flute students at her home studio in Bristol, VT, and has taught at the Vermont String School and the Champlain Valley Waldorf School. She enjoys working with and motivating young students to foster a love of music and learning. In her spare time she plays chamber music and is learning to play cello. |
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Pam Reit (violin) has a Bachelor of Music from Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and a Masters of Music from Rice University in Houston. She has been a Suzuki teacher since 1986 and has taught at workshops and Institutes all over the country. In 1992 she created Vermont Suzuki Violins which provides weekly Suzuki Group classes and chamber music coachings, as well as many performances and special events. Pam lives in Hinesburg, Vermont with her husband, 2 daughters and 2 cats. |
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Dan Santelices (violin, viola) is on the faculty of the Centenary (College) Suzuki School in Shreveport, Louisiana and is a core member of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra. He is the Director/Founder of the Chamber Music Program of the Ark-La-Tex Youth Symphony Orchestras and has been a guest clinician for summer music camps across the country. "Mr. Dan", as he is known by his students has been named to Who's Who Among American Teachers for 2003-04 and 2004-05. |
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Electives Staff
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Kate Gridley (art) maintains a painting studio in Middlebury, Vermont, where she lives with her husband and two teen age sons. She has taught at Middlebury College, The Gailer School, The Bridge School, Frog Hollow and The Town Hall Theater. Her courses have ranged from " Painting Techniques of the Renaissance" to "The World of Beatrix Potter", to classes in drawing, watercolor, and oil painting. Kate's work hangs in national and international public and private collections. |
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Dr. Larry Hamberlin (Chamber Music Coach)an assistant professor of music history at Middlebury College, earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 2004 and has previously taught at Tufts University and Williams College. His articles have appeared in American Music and the Journal of the American Musicological Society. Currently he is writing a book about opera and Tin Pan Alley for Oxford University Press. Formerly the music director of the Randolph Singers, and currently the President of the Board of the Rochester Chamber Music Society, he has composed the official march of the Rochester Town Band, which he directs, and with Dorothy Robson wrote incidental music for the White River Valley Players' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He and actor Ethan Bowen perform as Piano Stories, presenting classic short fiction in dramatic readings with musical accompaniment. Larry and his wife, Cynthia Huard, have two children, David and Sarabeth. |
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Alexis Houston Maurya (Yoga) has been in private practice for ten years, as a Reiki Master Teacher, massage therapist and yoga teacher. She has studied and practiced Hatha and Ashtanga yoga, as well as meditation for sixteen years and was given permission to teach in 2003 by the Green Mountain School of Yoga, Middlebury, VT. A major portion of her spiritual practice is Sanskrit chanting, the devotional practice of kirtan. Currently she teaches yoga at Inner Traditions, at Twin Farms Spa and Resort in Barnard, Vermont, and in the Rochester School, in their wellness program. She also teaches privately and does workshops in Vermont and on Cape Cod. She travels regularly to India with her husband, where they co-operatively run their practice called East Reaches West. |
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Rory Jackson (African Drumming) lives in New Haven, VT in the summer, and in Ghana during the winters, where he studies drumming and paints on his "slice of Mt. Zion." He makes a living painting with oils in his Bristol studio, and will be exhibiting in Waitsfield and Stowe this summer. |
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Victor Koblavi Dogah (African Dance) also known as Iyah, has grown up through the language of rhythm in a village that is renowned for its excellence in traditional music and dance. Koblavi teaches at the cultural center in his village, passing on what he has learned from Godwin Agbeli, the center's founder. He directs two of his own drum and dance groups, and has taught visiting musicians from Tufts University and Berklee College of Music at Legon University in Accra. He will begin his college studies this fall at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. |
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Erik Nielsen (Composition) has been composing for 30 years and his catalog includes works for chorus, orchestra, solo instruments, chamber music of many configurations and electronic music. He has had his works performed throughout the U.S., including such venues as Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. Erik works with composition students in Vermont and elsewhere throughout the United States through private lessons, summer camps and organizations like the Vermont MIDI Project.
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Sharon Pinsonneault (Puppetry) is a classroom teacher at The Bridge School in MIddlebury, Vermont. She teaches all subjects, including music (chorus, dance, or hand bells) on a daily basis and plays the pipe organ at area churches. She and her husband attend folk dances and workshops as often as they can, and have conducted teacher training in folk dance as well. |
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Poppy Rees (Theater Games) has taught theater and directed shows with people of all ages. She especially loves theater games, improvisation, and creating original theater pieces with students. Her work in Vermont includes teaching theater at the Community College of Vermont, The Flynn Theater, and The Gailer School. She's worked on Broadway in the Makeup/Prosthetics dept. of Beauty and the Beast, built scenery at The Magic Theater in San Francisco, and spent a few summers with Bread and Puppet. She has a B.A. in Theater from Vassar College, a M.A. in Theater Education from Emerson College, and is licensed to teach Theater (k-12) in Vermont. She lives in Middlebury with husband JP and her two kids - Milo and Callie. |
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Pete Sutherland (Traditional Fiddling), though known especially for his way with Appalachian styles, would say he's more of a generalist, having spent quality time with Yankee, Irish, Scandinavian and French Canadian fiddling. He has taught and performed at dozens of folk festivals and camps. Pete currently teaches in Monkton and Burlington and is on the Applied Faculty at Middlebury College. The latest CD to feature Pete's fiddling is "Streak o' Lean" on his own Epact Label. |
