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2008 GMSI Staff
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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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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.
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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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Devin Arrington (violin) has a BA in Music from Middlebury College and an MM in Music Composition from Carnegie Mellon University. A registered Suzuki violin instructor he has taught at Woodstock International School in India and the Pittsburgh Music Academy. In 2001 he received a grant from the Vermont Arts Council to provide discounted lessons to children in Rochester, VT and the surrounding area. Also a composer, Mr. Arrington has had his works premiered at Carnegie Hall and the Great Hall of the Composers in Russia. Currently he maintains a private studio in Pittsburgh and performs with the Westmoreland Symphony.
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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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Cello Staff
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Anne S. Brown (cello) has a Suzuki cello studio in South Burlington, Vermont, where she teaches both children and adults. She also leads weekly group classes and a cello choir. Her past experience includes teaching at the Green Mountain Suzuki Institute, coaching chamber ensembles, and teaching cello at the Lake Champlain Waldorf School and the VYOA Day Camp. Two of her favorite activities are playing chamber music with friends and attending chamber music workshops in the U.S. and abroad.
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Miriam Wu (cello) is principal author of “Scaling the Tenor Clef Dragon”, a workbook and guide to the tenor clef for cellists. She has taught at Suzuki institutes and workshops in both the U.S. and Canada and has served on the cello faculty at Ithaca Talent Education in Ithaca, NY. She has been active in establishing and directing the annual Binghamton Cello Festival and the Southern Tier Music Teachers Association, which she currently serves as president. She resides in Vestal, NY, where she maintains a private cello studio and performs with the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Flute Staff
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Sara Traficante (flute) received her BM from Eastman and her MM from McGill University. A teacher at Suzuki Music (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), Sara teaches flute, chamber music, and leads arts education projects in local public schools. An active performer, she was awarded a debut recital for Radio Canada CBC, and has performed as soloist with symphonies and in recital in the US, Canada, Ireland, Taiwan, and Japan. Her other musical interests include singing and songwriting, contemporary music, and performing on baroque period flutes.
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Electives Staff
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Melissa Chesnut-Tangerman (Choral Singing) teaches choral and some instrumental music at Long Trail School (grades 6 - 12) in Dorset, Vermont. She is an original member of the vocal ensemble Counterpoint, directed by Robert De Cormier. Melissa runs a children's chorus in Middletown Springs where she makes her home with her husband and teenage daughters Jeni and Malindi . In her spare time she is President and Volunteer Coordinator for SolarFest. |
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Dr. Peter Hamlin (Composer-in-Residence) teaches composition, theory and electronic music at Middlebury College. He has written a wide range of music for orchestra, band, wind ensemble, choir, solo instruments and various chamber combinations. He has also written music theater works, pieces for young audiences, and electronic music. He received his doctorate in composition at the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Joseph Schwantner and Samuel Adler. He is a 1973 graduate of Middlebury College where he studied composition with George Todd. |
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Jane Eubanks (Baroque Dance) started dancing soon after learning to walk and never stopped. She has studied ballet, modern dance, and choreography. The thesis for her masters degree from Indiana University in Musicology explored the Court Dances of Louis XIV and how learning these dances would help an instrumental performer understand the music of the time. In her teaching career, she has always taught her students the pleasures of dancing and playing dance music. |
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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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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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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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Stuart Paton (Taiko Drumming) spent most of his childhood in Japan. His formal study of taiko drumming began in 1984 when he studied with Grandmaster Seiichi Tanaka, the founder of the first taiko group in North America. Paton founded the Burlington Taiko Group in 1986 and has been teaching the art of taiko to children of all ages and adults across New England for twenty years. He also co-founded and serves as the artistic director of Compaña Dancers and Drummers (Cuban-Haitian), Orchestra Guayoyo (Cuban-Haitian), and Sambatucada (Brazilian).Photo by Jeff Clarke. |
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Sharon Pinsonneault (hand bells, contra dancing) 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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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 Vergennes 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. |
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Administrative Staff |
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Jody Woos (Executive Director) is a Suzuki piano teacher in New Haven, VT. Her two sons play four Suzuki instruments between them: Doug age 18 the violin and viola, and Tim age 16, the piano and flute. She did her Suzuki teacher training with Marilyn Taggart and has been profoundly influenced by her, as well as her sons' teachers, and the teachers at GSMI. She is returning to the institute this year in her sixth year as director. |
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Susie Smolen (Associate Director, Sing,Move and Laugh) is a music educator and performer who has taught and entertained both children and adults in a variety of settings. In addition to performing children’s programs, Susie performs as a folksinger/songwriter and with the local musical group Chameleon, playing recorders and guitar. After receiving her BA in Music Performance from Johnson State College (recorder) Susie went on to receive her Vermont Teaching License (Music K-8). Susie teaches guitar and recorder to both children and adults from her home in Rochester. |
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