**Anita Buttemer** holds a Master of Music in Suzuki Pedagogy from Ithaca College and a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Toronto. She has taught Suzuki Method violin and viola since 1988; and has been a Suzuki parent since 1999. She is a founding director and faculty member of the Suzuki Talent Education of Waterloo (STEW) in Waterloo; Ontario; Canada. Currently; Anita is also the Artistic Director. Previously; Anita has taught at the North York Suzuki School of Music in Toronto; the Waldorf School of the Finger Lakes in Ithaca; New York; and the Suzuki String School of ...

A Hamilton based violin and viola performer and pedagogue, Caitlin Boyle is a member of the Isabel String Quartet, the Niagara Symphony Orchestra, teaches at the Hamilton Suzuki School of Music, and is co-artistic director of Five at the First Chamber Music Series. A JUNO-nominated performing artist, Ms. Boyle concertized extensively for thirteen years from 2006-2018 with the Cecilia String Quartet. She has won several international awards including Banff, Bordeaux, and Osaka String Quartet Competitions. Her passion for music education has led her to teach at the Faculty of Music at the ...

Carmen Evans is the Artistic Director of the Suzuki String School of Guelph, where she teaches violin; viola; and Suzuki ECE. Carmen was the Chair of the SAO from 2016-2019

Daniela Cruz is an enthusiastic viola/violin teacher; who recently served as Teacher Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; The String Academy of Wisconsin; Viola/Violin Faculty at the Michigan State University Community Music School and at the Jackson Symphony Orchestra Community Music School. Daniela is a faculty member at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and has toured Europe as leading staff with their International Youth Symphony Orchestra. She has taught students of diverse background in different parts of the United States and her home country Brazil. As a performer; she is a violist ...

Violinist Debbie Hammond began her studies at the age of four in London; Ontario. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Toronto and a Master of Music in Performance from the University of Michigan; Ann Arbor. Debbie has completed Suzuki Pedagogy training with several noted trainers including Edmund Springer; Alice Joy Lewis and Dr. Timothy (Terry) Durbin. Her principal violin teachers include Patrick Burroughs; Geri Arnold; Dr. Robert Skelton; Mark Fewer & Yehonatan Berick. Debbie is the director of the Hammond Suzuki Studio; a private Suzuki violin program in ...