Nurturing a Love of Differences, and Commonalities
A tour group adventure through the Baltics

Allison Huebner-Woerner has served as a faculty violin and viola instructor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Suzuki String Program for the past 27 years. In addition, she has been director of the Edwardsville Youth Orchestra, and is in her 19th year asdirector of the SIUE Suzuki Tour Group. She holds degrees from University of Missouri-Columbia and SIUE in Music Performance and Music Education. Allison served as a graduate assistant to John Kendall while completing her long-term Suzuki training, and was a doctoral assistant to John McLeod during her doctoral studies at University of Missouri-Columbia.

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Erika Lord-Castillo (violin, viola) has been a faculty teacher in the SIU-Edwardsville Suzuki Program since 2009 and became a Suzuki Violin Teacher Trainer in 2021. Originally from Iowa City, Iowa, Erika earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature, Sciences and Arts from the University of Iowa. She holds a Master’s in Music Education from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and studied Suzuki pedagogy Violin Books 1-10 with Vera McCoy-Sulentic. Erika has performed with numerous community orchestras in Iowa and Oregon, with the St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra, the Illinois Symphony, and is a regular member of the Edwardsville Community Symphony and the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Orchestra. Erika is also a regular contributor to the American Suzuki Journal. Erika received the Suzuki Association Certificate of Achievement Level 1 in the summer of 2015.

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