Violin Unit 5
Jun 19 – 23, 2023 in Claremont, CA
at Los Angeles Suzuki Institute

What

Violin Unit 5

Instructor: Susan McDonald

Additional Schedule Information

Prerequisite course:

Viola Unit 3, or Violin Unit 3

Audition: Violin Intermediate, or Violin Comprehensive.

Deadline: All audition materials must be submitted by June 5 *

Trainer Information

Susan Montzka McDonald is Suzuki Coordinator at the Community Music School of Webster University, where she has taught for over 35 years. She has taught at numerous Suzuki workshops, and at the American, Chicago, Colorado, EFH, Florida, Los Angeles, Louisville, and Peaks to Plains Suzuki Institutes. She is a registered SAA Violin Teacher Trainer, and has served on the SAA Board of Directors.

Susan began her study of the violin as a Suzuki student of Kazuko Numanami in Oberlin, Ohio. She earned her BM in Music Education from Lawrence University Conservatory and her MA in Violin Performance from Western Illinois University, where she studied Suzuki Pedagogy with Almita Vamos. She continued her long-term pedagogy study with John Kendall at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Susan currently performs with the Metropolitan Orchestra of St. Louis. She is also the mother of two Suzuki violin graduates.

When

Monday, June 19 to Friday, June 23, , 2023