SAA Registered Training - a complete transcript is available upon request

Core Units - many were taken multiple times

• Suzuki Principles in Action

• Violin Foundation 1A

• Violin Foundation 1B

• Violin Unit 2

• Violin Unit 3

• Violin Unit 4

• Violin Unit 5

• Violin Unit 6

• Violin Practicum

Supplementary

• Remedial Violin/Viola Teaching: Sharing Both Technical and Psychological Approaches

Creativity Ability Development (CAD)

• Alice Kanack - 12 hour teacher intensive training

• Laura Nerenberg - 12 hour teacher intensive training

• Alice Kanack - Week long teacher training at Kanack School of Musical Artistry

Music Mind Games - With Michiko Yurko

• Unit One Overview

• Unit Two Overview

Brain Gym - With Linda Case

• Unit One

Sue has been teaching Suzuki violin since 1994. She has experience teaching children as young as 2 with equal comfort as teaching adults even up into their 80s. She loves incorporating a combination of materials including Creative Ability Development (improvisation), Brain Gym (Brain and Body Mapping), Music Mind Games (Music theory kinesthetic games), Rebecca Penney’s fundamental flow techniques (tracking skills of the eyes when reading), and computer technologies (composition, ear training, and engraving), while using the Suzuki Philosophy and adjusting to the needs of the student at hand.

She had enjoyed continuing her education at summer institutes and workshops, learning from many distinguished names in the field.

When living in Syracuse, she received the Ruth Edson Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Syracuse Music Community from Civic Morning Musicals in 2012, having been president of the Central New York Association of Music Teachers for 5 years.  She organized Central NY area Suzuki teachers creating annual multi-studio workshops and play-ins. She also helped raise funds for the AMS Scholarship fund and the CNYAMT Summer Camp Scholarship Fund which sends Central NY area students to Summer Suzuki Institutes.

She now lives in the university area of Charlotte, NC, and had enjoyed working with students and teachers in the area that are incorporating Creative Ability Development (CAD) pedagogy into their musical lives.