Deals with the physical aspects of good violin technique.
Latin American Update
Feb 1, 2004
Book Review
How Muscles Learn
Teaching the Violin with the Body in Mind by Susan Kempter
Previously printed in American Suzuki Journal 32.1. Reprinted with permission. Copyright © 2003 Suzuki Association of the Americas, Inc.
Kathleen Spring, a 1974 graduate of Walla Walla University, has also studied at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Vienna with Eduard Melkus and with Alan Bodman at Washington State University. She received a M.Mus. in Violin performance with James Maurer from the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver.
Honors include the ASTA Outstanding Studio Teacher Award for Washington State,1996. Con Brio, her Jr. Hi. string ensemble performed at the Washington MENC convention, 1998. Currently, the studio’s advanced performance group, Spring String, performs in the Denver Metro area and tours regionally and internationally.
A registered Teacher Trainer, Kathleen teaches workshops in North America and has guest taught in both Europe and Asia. She also teaches Suzuki Violin Pedagogy at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music and until July of 2021 maintained an active studio.
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