In Memoriam
Michele Higa George

Rebecca Ensworth co-founded the Suzuki program at The Cleveland Institute of Music where she taught for 22 years. Currently she teaches 25 violin students in her home Suzuki Studio in Medina, OH. She received a BM and a MM degree from The Cleveland Institute of Music studying with primary teachers David and Linda Cerone and Alan Bodman. She completed her long term Suzuki teacher training with Michele George and James Stern. Becky wrote a book called, Want Happiness? A Humorous Guide to Help Your “Self”. Becky’s hobbies include hiking and ballroom dancing.

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Kimberly Meier-Sims
Conservatory Violin faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Head of CIM Suzuki Pedagogy and registered Violin Teacher Trainer through the Suzuki Association of the Americas. Ms. Meier-Sims conducts a graduate two-year Suzuki teacher training program at CIM which is part of the unique Master duo degree program in Violin Performance and Suzuki Pedagogy. Sato Center for Suzuki Studies director 2004-2022. Her violin professors include John Kendall (founder of the Suzuki Method in the United States) and Almita Vamos. Ms. Meier-Sims was the Coordinator of the University of Memphis Suzuki String Program from 1996-2004 and a violin instructor at the Preucil School of Music from 1984-1996. In the summer of 1986, she studied violin and pedagogy with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki in Matsumoto, Japan. Over the past thirty years she has worked with young students and teachers promoting the Suzuki Method of teaching at summer institutes and workshops.

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