Gretchen Grube

SAA Registered Training

(Violin)

Core Units

• Every Child Can!
• Suzuki Principles in Action
• Violin Unit 1
• Violin Unit 2
• Violin Unit 3
• Violin Unit 4
• Violin Unit 5
• Violin Unit 6
• Violin Unit 7
• Violin Unit 8
• Violin Unit 9-10
• Violin Practicum
• Suzuki Early Childhood Education Prenatal Through Baby/Toddler Years, Stage 1

Supplementary

• Violin Overview Units 1-4

Gretchen Grube grew up as a traditional violin student in northern Wisconsin. She was exposed to the Suzuki method when she began studying violin at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. As an undergraduate student, Ms. Gretchen took a Suzuki Pedagogy course at the world-renowned Aber Suzuki Center in Stevens Point, WI with Pat D’Erocle. During the course, Ms. Gretchen fell in love with the Suzuki philosophy and teachings. She has been teaching traditional and Suzuki lessons for ten years.

Ms. Gretchen holds a B.M. in Violin Performance with Suzuki Pedagogy from University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP). She completed her M.M. in Violin Performance with Suzuki Pedagogy from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE).

Ms. Gretchen has been published in the American Suzuki Journal and has presented at the Biennial Suzuki Conference on Classroom Management. She is also a past president of the Suzuki Association of Wisconsin chapter affiliate.

Ms. Gretchen worked at Talent Education Suzuki School (TESS) in Norwalk, Connecticut. At TESS, she taught private and group Suzuki classes, and was the founder of our Suzuki Babies program.
Ms. Gretchen was the former string department chair Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.

Currently, she teaches private violin and viola at the Music Institute of Chicago and Music for Youth in the Arlington Height’s District 25 . She embraces the Suzuki philosophy to help and encourage students to reach their fullest potential. She enjoys working with children and watching them grow into outstanding individuals.

In addition, she is an active clinician across the country at institutes and workshops and plays in an Irish rock band called the Gleasons.

Ms. Gretchen also enjoys playing with her cat, scrapbooking, and eating ice cream!