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Oregon Suzuki Institute Faculty

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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.

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Teacher Workshop Faculty 2010

Peggy Swingle
Piano Practicum
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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Student Institute Faculty

VIOLIN Yoko Acheson, California Gail Acosta, California Clarisse Atcherson, Washington Susanne Gaye, Oregon Michael Hanson, Colorado Tracy Helming, Washington Sandra Payton, Washington Barbara Riley, Washington Rumi Shimasaki, California VIOLA Gail Acosta, California Barbara Riley, Washington ‘CELLO Ann Grabe, Oregon David Holmes, Minnesota PIANO Karlyn Brett, Washington Ethel Fang, Texas Peggy Swingle, Washington ACCOMPANISTS Adam Whiting, Ohio

ARTS & CRAFTS / ORIGAMI Charlie Graham, Oregon Cathy Hart, Oregon CHAMBER MUSIC Justin Mackewich, Oregon Adam Whiting, Ohio DALCROZE/EURHYTHMICS Jeremy Dittus, Colorado FOLK DANCE Barbara McQuillen, Oregon MARIMBA/SINGING Laura Frizzell, Oregon MUSIC HISTORY Sandra Payton, Washington ORCHESTRA Suzanne Gaye, Oregon Gwen Gilbertson, Oregon

 

 

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