Kaori Matsui Barvin

Violin Teacher

Kaori Matsui Barvin

SAA Member

Contact

Bellevue, WA
513-315-2973
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A native of Japan, Kaori Matsui completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Shepherd School of Music under the mentorship of Paul Kantor. An avid orchestral musician, she has received the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen fellowship, toured Japan with the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, and appeared at Carnegie Hall with the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra and New York String Orchestra Seminar Orchestra.

Kaori found her love for teaching when she served as a chamber music faculty in the Michael P. Hammond Preparatory Program at the Shepherd School of Music. Her first class was a group of three six-year-old students. Not only was it her first time teaching group class, but it was her first time teaching children as young as they were! Immediately she felt a great desire to learn more about teaching children and become more equipped to teach a broader range of students. This is how her Suzuki journey began. She has completed all 10 book trainings with addition of several enrichment courses.

Aside from teaching weekly private and group classes at The Heights Violin Studio, she has been faculty at AFA Chamber Music Academy, HYS Chamber Music, and AFA Summer Festival, and STXSA Suzuki workshops, and given masterclasses at STXSA Suzuki workshops and Sam Houston State University.