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Ms. Virginia H. Dixon

Bass, Cello Teacher · Teacher Trainer SAA Member

Virginia Dixon, one of two Teacher Trainers of bass for SAA and the only Bass Trainer for ESA, teaches at the Suzuki School of Elgin as well as in her home studio and Elmhurst College. This coming summer she will teach and train teachers at Suzuki institutes including in Beaver Creek, CO, and Stevens Point, WI., Seattle, WA, and Ypsilanti, MI. She was long time Board Member of the International Society of Bassist, where she still edits their journal’s Child’s Play Column. In 2005 she received the ISB Special Achievement Award as their Young Bassist Ambassador. A member of the Suzuki Bass Committee, she is creating materials for the Suzuki Bass Method and is one of two Teacher Trainers actively training teachers from the United States and abroad. Recently she taught teachers from Brazil, Columbia, and Peru in Lima, Peru. Buenos Aries was the site for courses through Book 5, producing the first two people to attain this level of book coursework. She also graduated twelve European trainees, some through European Level 3 in Copenhagen Denmark. She holds two performance degrees from Indiana University and has studied with Julius Levine, Murray Grodner, and Georg Hortnagel. Her performances have taken her throughout the United States as well as Europe and Japan as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra player.