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Jennifer Visick

Viola, Violin, Suzuki in the Schools Teacher, Administrator SAA Member

Jennifer Visick is a graduate of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine where she earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Viola Performance. She teaches privately at her studio in Southern California, is on the faculty of the Pasadena Suzuki Music Program and is the Assistant Director of CYOSC, a youth orchestra based in Orange County. She also performs regularly in worship services for her church, and was a founding member of the Elegie String Quartet. Her viola instructors have included John Scanlon, Jerzy Kosmala, Yvonne Creanga, Laura Kuennen-Poper, and Margaret Shimizu, and she has taken Suzuki Teacher Training under the guidance of Laurie Scott, Ronda Cole, Elizabeth Stuen-Walker, Edward Kreitman, Ed Sprunger, Susan Kempter, and Lorraine Fink.

A proponent of life-long learning, Jennifer pursues ongoing studies in music education specializing in injury-prevention for musicians, and has been influenced in this area by Robyn Avalon’s “Living in a Body” courses that deal with BodyMapping and the Alexander Technique, Karen Tuttle’s “Coordination” Workshop, and by Janet Horvath (author of Playing (Less) Hurt), as well as by Susan Kempter’s “Playing the Violin with the Body in Mind”. She is a member of the Christian Performing Artist’s Fellowship, the Suzuki Association of the Americas, the Suzuki Music Association of California-Los Angeles Branch, and the Southern California Viola Society.