Greenfield/Brattleboro Area Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass Teachers

Julie Carew, Greenfield MA
Instrument(s): Violin, Cello
Style: Classical
Teaches Suzuki Method
Student type: beginners, intermediate, advanced, children, adults
Contact email: cellojulie@gmail.com
Website: www.juliecarew.com
Contact phone: 617-997-5827

Professional Credentials
BM- Cello Performance from the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford
MM- Cello Performance with an emphasis in Suzuki Pedagogy from the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver
Long-term Suzuki Training- Every Child Can!, Cello Books 1-10, Violin Book 1A and 1B

Teacher Comments:
Please visit www.juliecarew.com for more information

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Vicki Citron, Shelburne MA
instrument(s): Violin
Style: Classical
Teaches Suzuki Method
Student type: beginners, intermediate, advanced, children, adults
Contact email: vicki@citronmusic.com
Website: www.citronmusic.com
Contact phone: 617-610-2601

Professional Credentials

• Experienced teacher of forty years, comfortable with all ages, all levels and all learning styles
• Masters in music performance and member of resident graduate string quartet UMass, Lowell
• Registered Suzuki training through book 6
• Past president Mass Suzuki Association, member Suzuki Association of the Americas
• Published articles and reviews on string playing in Strings magazine and teaching journals
• Committed to ongoing teacher training and enrichment courses

Teacher Comments:
Music and teaching are my passions. My goal is to get students excited about making music and experience the joy of making music with others.

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Susan Conger, Greenfield MA
instrument(s): Violin
Style: Classical, Fiddle
Student type: beginners, intermediate, children, adults
Contact email: info@alongtheriver.com
Website: https://www.alongtheriver.com/susan
Contact phone: 413-773-9269

Professional Credentials
Susan Conger grew up studying classical violin, and as an adult was drawn to the fiddle tunes she heard while contradancing.
Susan has taught fiddle at Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camp repeatedly since 1991, and at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina since 2000.
Locally, she has been the fiddle instructor at "Strings@Amherst" since 2015, and taught fiddle classes at Artspace in Greenfield for several years. She teaches private lessons in fiddle and classical violin in her Greenfield (MA) studio.
She edited the Along the River collection of dance tunes, and some of her own compositions are widely played and much recorded.


Teacher Comments:
I truly love teaching! It's a delight to share the joy of making music, and to discover the approach that is most helpful for each individual student.
When students or their parents comment about my teaching style, the words I hear most often are "patient" and "encouraging."
I teach children (age 7 and up) and adults. Many of my adult students are returning to the instrument after letting it lay fallow for decades, or are finally pursuing a long-deferred dream to learn to play fiddle/violin.

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Crystal McNeill, Northfield MA 
Instrument(s): Violin, Fiddle
Style: Classical and Celtic
Trained in Suzuki Method
Student type: beginners, intermediate, advanced
Contact phone: (413) 498 2142

Teacher Comments:
I have been playing violin and fiddle for over 35 years.  Trained in the Suzuki Method, I played in the Westmoreland County Youth Orchestra, Five College Orchestra, Arlington Communicty Orchestra, Boston Scottish Fidd

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Dorota Wilhelmi, Greenfield MA 
Instrument(s): Violin, Viola, Cello
Style: Classical
Student type: beginners, intermediate, advanced, children, adults
Contact email: musicaviva@comcast.net
Website: musicacademyofgreenfield.com 
Contact phone: (413) 773-5599

Professional Credentials
MA in violin performance, and education; 1982 from Berlin's Hochschule fur Music, Germany; MA in violin performance in 1985 from Chopin University, Warsaw, Poland. Played with Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Orchestra Simfonica del Valle, Calli, Colombia. Performed in international chamber ensemble in Seoul, South Korea. Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Mass.

Teacher Comments:
The Music Academy of Greenfield offers professional music training in many areas.
Music Theory for beginners, Solfege, violin, piano, viola, voice, drums, guitar, and cello are available for adults and children.