{"id":207180,"name":"Esther Fellows","url":"","description":"Esther Fellows is a registered Violin Teacher Trainer by the Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA), as well as a Registered Trainer for Every Child Can. Living in Hamilton, Montana,  she maintains a Suzuki home studio in violin\/viola\/piano.\r\nAn active professional performer as well,  Esther is a violist with the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra (Tulsa OK), and section violinist with Glacier Symphony Orchestra (Kalispell, Montana).\r\nFellows served as secretary on the Board of Directors for the SAA. With memberships in SAA and MTNA, Fellows is the only SAA Registered Teacher Trainer in Montana  and also holds the distinction of being a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music, through the exam and recital process, on three instruments\u2014violin, viola, and piano. In addition to the SAA and MTNA, other memberships include the American String Teachers Association (ASTA), the Montana Music Teachers Association, and has been an active member Tulsa Area Music Teachers Association, where she has served as President, as well as other elected leadership positions. Fellows has been published in the American Music Teacher, and by ASTA.\r\nStarting as the Suzuki\/Orchestra Director at Fort Lauderdale Christian in the early \u201880\u2019s, Fellows\u2019 Suzuki training has been under outstanding teacher trainers that included Margery Aber, Pat D\u2019Ercole, Mark Bjork, James Mauer, Craig Timmerman, Alice Joy Lewis, Carol Tarr, Nancy Lokken, Joanne Melvin, Lorraine Fink, Joe Kaminsky, Carol Dallinger, Christy Felsing, Tom Wermuth, and Lorraine Landefeld. Additional advanced teacher trainings have been through The Juilliard School\u2019s  Starling-Delay Symposium. Undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder were under Oswald Lehnert (violin), Abraham Chavez (violin), Ruth Morrow (viola), and Guy Duckworth (piano) and Storm Bull (piano).\r\nHaving former students performing professionally in Europe and the United States, Fellows is especially proud of her four children, three of whom play play professionally\u2014Joy Fellows, violist with San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet; Rachel Schnackel, formerly substitute violinist with Memphis Symphony, Nashville Symphony, and Concertmaster with the Jackson Symphony (MS), now performing in Montana with Regal Ensemble, and Missoula Symphony Orchestra, as well as String Orchestra of the Rockies;  and Jessica Fellows, former substitute violinist with the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and St. Louis Symphony, now on contract with the San Francisco Symphony. Her son, Dan, is a computer tech and violist.\r\nEsther speaks some Spanish and some French.","link":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/es\/author\/estherfellowsgmail-com\/","slug":"estherfellowsgmail-com","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-24x24.jpeg","48":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-48x48.jpeg","96":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-96x96.jpeg"},"meta":{"lw_harbor_dismissed_notices":[],"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_last_posted":0},"acf":[],"simple_local_avatar":{"media_id":36424,"full":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673.jpeg","blog_id":1,"260":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-260x260.jpeg","68":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-68x68.jpeg","34":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-34x34.jpeg","256":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-256x256.jpeg","128":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-128x128.jpeg","120":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-120x120.jpeg","60":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-60x60.jpeg","64":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-64x64.jpeg","32":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-32x32.jpeg","192":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-192x192.jpeg","96":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-96x96.jpeg","48":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-48x48.jpeg","24":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/170720241721175673-24x24.jpeg"},"kb":{"avatar":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/6f25ae35b9be7362e0037b1eeebfdd2f.jpg?ver=1780205058","registered":"January 1, 1970"},"is_super_admin":false,"woocommerce_meta":{"variable_product_tour_shown":"","activity_panel_inbox_last_read":"","activity_panel_reviews_last_read":"","categories_report_columns":"","coupons_report_columns":"","customers_report_columns":"","orders_report_columns":"","products_report_columns":"","revenue_report_columns":"","taxes_report_columns":"","variations_report_columns":"","dashboard_sections":"","dashboard_chart_type":"","dashboard_chart_interval":"","dashboard_leaderboard_rows":"","order_attribution_install_banner_dismissed":"","scheduled_updates_promotion_notice_dismissed":"","homepage_layout":"","homepage_stats":"","task_list_tracked_started_tasks":"","android_app_banner_dismissed":"","launch_your_store_tour_hidden":"","coming_soon_banner_dismissed":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suzukiassociation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}