Oregon Suzuki Institute Faculty
Oregon Suzuki Instutute Directors
Kathie Reed
Co-Director
Received a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from the University of Oregon and a Masters of Arts in Teaching with a specialty in music from Lewis and Clark College. She began studying the Suzuki method in 1979 at the Pacific Northwest Suzuki Institute, now known as the Oregon Suzuki Institute. Her first teacher training was on violin. She has since studied both cello and piano teaching in the Mother Tongue method. Kathie has taught in the Lake Oswego Public School District since 1988. She teaches at the Portland Community Music Center and conducts the Overture Orchestra in the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Association. Kathie maintains a private studio of over 40 students of cello and piano and performs cello with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra.
Cynthia Scott
Co-Director
Cynthia Scott received a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance from Lewis and Clark College and a Masters of Music in a self-designed degree program in violin and viola pedagogy with an emphasis on the Suzuki approach from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. She began teaching Suzuki violin in 1974 as an assistant to Sr. Jeanette Wood in the Suzuki program at Marylhurst Education Center for Life-Long Learning. After earning her masters, she taught in the Suzuki pedagogy program at CCM-UC and started a Suzuki violin program in Batesville, Indiana. After returning to the Portland area, she taught at Marylhurst College for four years before leaving to start her own studio. Cynthia has been on the Suzuki faculty at the Portland Community Music Center since 1995, has taught in the Lake Oswego Public School District elementary strings program since 1988, and has given Suzuki-based group classes in the Oregon City District home-school program since 2000. She has performed on violin and viola with the Portland Opera, the Portland Ballet, West Coast Chamber Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, the Eugene Symphony Orchestra, and the Chehalem String Quartet. She is currently principal violist in the Columbia Symphony Orchestra and principal second violinist in Sinfonia Concertante.
Teacher Workshop Faculty 2008
Judy Weigert Bossaut
Violin Unit 1
Judy Weigert Bossaut is the Master Teacher of the Sacramento State String Project. Her teaching career has also included faculty positions at the University of the Pacific—Stockton and the University of Oregon. A graduate of the State University of New York, Potsdam Crane School of Music and the Talent Education Institute, Matsumoto, Japan where she studied with Shinichi Suzuki, she has been teaching strings, conducting orchestras, and training teachers for over 30 years; 16 of them at the “Ecole de Musique Suzuki” in Lyon, France. She is a composer and prolific author and presenter.
Ms. Bossuat serves on the national board of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) and on the national board of the National String Project Consortium (NSPC). She is an honorary life member of the European Suzuki Association (ESA) and the “Association Musicale Suzuki en France” (FMSF). She has served as president of the California chapter of the American String Teachers Association (CALASTA).
Joe Kaminsky
Violin Unit 5
Joe Kaminsky
is a frequent clinician throughout
the United States and has been a registered teacher trainer
since 1984. He has studied with John Kendall, Roland and
Amita Vamos, and Shinichi Suzuki. Currently on the music
faculty of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Webster
University and the Kirkwood School District, he is founder
and director of the Kirkwood Academy of Music. Mr. Kaminsky
has produced three Technique Mastery CD’s for Suzuki
violinists, and a DVD, “Vibrato from the Ground Up” for
teaching vibrato. He also is a frequent contributor to the
American Suzuki Journal.
Kathleen Spring
Violin Practicum
Kathleen Spring holds degrees from
Walla Walla College and the University of Denver. She
has also studied with Eduard Melkus in Vienna. Awards
include the Private Studio, Outstanding Music Educator
of the Year from the Washington chapter of the American
String Teachers Association. Founder of the Walla Walla
Suzuki String Program, she relocated to Colorado in 2001
where she has an active Suzuki studio and is involved
with both the Suzuki Association of Colorado and the Suzuki
Association of the Americas.
Betsy Stuen-Walker
Viola
Unit 4
Betsy Stuen-Walker is a well-known clinician who maintains
a studio in Bellingham, Washington, where she teaches
viola, violin, and Orff, in addition to her role as a
church choir director and performer. She has received
degrees from Eastman School of Music and Yale University
School of Music. She is a past Board member of both the
SAA and the Suzuki Association of Washington State and
has also served as viola column editor for the American
Suzuki Journal. She has published arrangements for viola
ensembles.
Peggy Swingle
Piano Unit 5
Peggy Swingle has
been teaching Suzuki piano since 1973 and currently serves
on the SAA Teacher Development Team. She studied in Japan
in 1984 and has been a registered Teacher Trainer since
then. She directed a Suzuki School for 15 years and currently
maintains an active private studio. She is a popular clinician
all over North America and England. She has written a
book on reading for Suzuki pianists, a parenting handbook,
and is working on a book on parenting and how children
learn successfully. She has three grown children, all
of whom were Suzuki students.
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