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 2009
Please Note, the 2010 faculty has not been announced yet.
Joanne Bath
Violin Overview Units 1-4
Joanne Bath is
a registered
teacher trainer with the Suzuki Association of the Americas
and a member of the Board of Directors of the SAA, is
the Hardy Distinguished Professor and Director of the
Suzuki Pedagogy Program at East Carolina University School
of Music. She earned a M.M. from the University of Michigan,
a B.M. from Dennison University, and a certificate from
the Conservatoire Americaine in Fontaineblue, France.
She has done Suzuki teacher training with Dr. John Kendall,
William Starr and Craig Timmerman. One of the first to
use Dr. Suzuki’s approach when she began Suzuki
violin teaching in 1964, she is the founder of the North
Carolina Suzuki Teachers Association and the Greenville
Suzuki Association. She publishes regularly in the American
Suzuki Journal.
Ellie Leroux
Violin Supplementary Course: Bridging the
Gap Between Book 8 and Mozart
Ellie Leroux
has been teaching violin
for over 30 years in her private studio, in schools and
as a guest clinician at workshops throughout the United
States. Her Suzuki teacher training includes work with
Betty Haag, Dr. John Kendall, Dr. Suzuki and many other
master teachers. She currently resides in Honolulu, Hawaii,
where she has started a Suzuki violin program at Iolani
School. Her first book and CD, Fantastic Fiddle Form,
explores violin posture in song, words and pictures. Ellie
teaches to learn and loves kids, life, and the ocean!
Betsy Stuen-Walker
Viola Unit 6
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 Overview Units 1-4
Peggy Swingel
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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