Oregon Suzuki Institute Faculty
Oregon Suzuki Instutute Directors
Kathie Reed
Co-Director
Received a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from the University of Oregon and a Masters of Arts in Teaching with a specialty in music from Lewis and Clark College. She began studying the Suzuki method in 1979 at the Pacific Northwest Suzuki Institute, now known as the Oregon Suzuki Institute. Her first teacher training was on violin. She has since studied both cello and piano teaching in the Mother Tongue method. Kathie has taught in the Lake Oswego Public School District since 1988. She teaches at the Portland Community Music Center and conducts the Overture Orchestra in the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Association. Kathie maintains a private studio of over 40 students of cello and piano and performs cello with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra.
Cynthia Scott
Co-Director
Cynthia Scott received a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance from Lewis and Clark College and a Masters of Music in a self-designed degree program in violin and viola pedagogy with an emphasis on the Suzuki approach from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. She began teaching Suzuki violin in 1974 as an assistant to Sr. Jeanette Wood in the Suzuki program at Marylhurst Education Center for Life-Long Learning. After earning her masters, she taught in the Suzuki pedagogy program at CCM-UC and started a Suzuki violin program in Batesville, Indiana. After returning to the Portland area, she taught at Marylhurst College for four years before leaving to start her own studio. Cynthia has been on the Suzuki faculty at the Portland Community Music Center since 1995, has taught in the Lake Oswego Public School District elementary strings program since 1988, and has given Suzuki-based group classes in the Oregon City District home-school program since 2000. She has performed on violin and viola with the Portland Opera, the Portland Ballet, West Coast Chamber Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, the Eugene Symphony Orchestra, and the Chehalem String Quartet. She is currently principal violist in the Columbia Symphony Orchestra and principal second violinist in Sinfonia Concertante.
Teacher Workshop Faculty 2011
Betsy Stuen-Walker
Viola Unit 3
Betsy Stuen-Walker is a well-known clinician
who maintains a studio in Bellingham, Washington, where
she teaches viola, violin, and Orff, in addition to her
role as a church choir director and performer. She has received
degrees from Eastman School of Music and Yale University
School of Music. She is a past Board member of both the
SAA and the Suzuki Association of Washington State and has
also served as viola column editor for the American Suzuki
Journal. She has published arrangements for viola ensembles.
Jane Kutscher Reed
Exploring The New Piano Repertoire
Jane Kutscher Reed is
a Suzuki piano teacher from Westerville, Ohio. She earned
her degree in Piano Performance from the University of
Findlay. In addition to her private studio teaching, she
is a Suzuki teacher trainer, an ECC instructor, and teacher
at workshops and institutes throughout the United States,
Canada, Australia, and Bermuda. Jane also offers seminars
in Suzuki parent education, the art of teaching, music
reading games, and motivational lectures on developing
positive outcomes. Most recently she has expanded into
the field of educational consulting. She currently serves
as an independent facilitator for the Parenting with Love
and Logic Curriculum. Her teaching encompasses philosophies
that begin with an environment of love and empathy and
develop responsible, capable and motivated children.
Judy Weigert Bossuat
Music Reading Can Be Fun!
Judy Weigert Bossuat is an
internationally known string pedagogue and has been teaching
strings, conducting orchestras, and training teachers
for almost 40 years. A graduate of the Talent Education
Institute in Matsumoto, Japan, where she studied with
Dr. Suzuki, she is a registered teacher trainer for both
the Suzuki Association of the Americas and the European
Suzuki Association. Judy has taught at numerous International
Suzuki Conferences as well as at institutes and workshops
in at least 15 countries. Judy currently teaches violin
at the Suzuki Institute of Dallas and at Sacramento State
University where she is Master Teacher of the String Project.
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