David Levine
David Levine, currently assistant music director of Buffalo Suzuki Strings, has taught violin and viola for the program since 1996. David completed a BS in music education and a BA in music from the University of Connecticut and an MM in Suzuki pedagogy from Ithaca College, studying with Sanford Reuning. He has studied violin and viola with Theodore Arm, Linda Case, Debra Moree, Sanford Reuning, and Almita and Roland Vamos. David has also taken violin training courses with Teri Einfeldt, John Kendall, Mary Cay Neal, Carrie Reuning, and Stevie Sandven, as well viola units with Elizabeth Stuen-Walker. David, an active clinician, has taught at Suzuki workshops and institutes in Illinois, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, DC, Wisconsin, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and South Africa. David lives in Buffalo with his wife Shannon Levine, the cello teacher at Buffalo Suzuki Strings, and their daughters Anna and Miriam.