In Memoriam
Sara Benites

Blancamaría Montecinos V. is a SUZUKI Piano, Pre-Piano, and Early Childhood Education teacher. Former president of the Chilean Suzuki Association, and collaborator with 30 years of experience teaching the Suzuki Method. Currently the director of Escuela de Música Suzuki Chile in Santiago, Chile; with a team of 13 teachers and more than 250 students. Motivating and inspiring teachers for over a decade she is currently a certified SAA Teacher Trainer.
During this pandemic year, BM had an intense work with TTs giving online seminars in “Transition into Prepiano” “Reading at the piano”, and Filosofía, Book 1 unit, and Prepiano the first approach.

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Marilyn O’Boyle became involved with the Suzuki Movement in 1972, starting a Suzuki violin program in Lincoln, Nebraska. She then started programs in Lima, Peru and Santiago, Chile, where she lived in the 1980s. A registered Teacher Trainer, she has taught long term courses at the University of Nebraska, and short term courses in the United States and many Latin American countries. Marilyn is an SAA liaison to Latin American programs. She has directed several summer Suzuki Institutes, including the Eastern Nebraska Suzuki Institute, the TCU Institute and the New Mexico Suzuki Institute. She teaches in Albuquerque, New Mexico in her home studio. She has twice served three year terms on the Suzuki Association of the Americas Board of Directors.

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