A Tribute to Margery Aber

Janet Bogart teaches violin and directs ensembles in the Suzuki Music School at Dominican University, She founded and directed the Talent Education program in Kalamazoo, MI in 1989 (where she also taught for 16 years), followed by a dozen plus years in Adelaide, South Australia, An SAA and Australian Teacher Trainer, Jan has been a clinician throughout the US, New Zealand, and Australia. She returned to the US, thinking she had possibly retired. She found however that retirement for a Suzuki teacher is not remotely possible.

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Ann Marie Novak, Director of Suzuki Programs at UWSP, holds Bachelor’s degrees in Piano Performance and Psychology from Oberlin College-Conservatory, and a Master’s degree from UMass-Amherst. She was the founding Director of the Northampton Community Music Center and served as President of the Suzuki Association of Wisconsin. She teaches piano and serves as a collaborative pianist at the Aber Suzuki Center, and is a regular clinician at the SAW Retreat and the American Suzuki Institute. Her students are frequent participants and winners in WMTA events, and have been chosen for masterclasses locally and nationally. Miss Novak writes extensively for the ASC parent education blog and has written other parent education materials. She has presented at SAA Conferences and has frequently lectured at the American Suzuki Institute. She has received the SAW’s 2020 Suzuki Sensei Leadership Award and the 2015 Stevens Point Area Music Teachers’ Association Member of the Year.

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*Carol Ourada is on the faculty of the Wheaton College Community School of the Arts, teaching primarily Suzuki cello, and also violin, viola, bass, music reading, Creative Ability Development improvisation and cello choir. She has taught early childhood music for 25 years. In addition, Carol teaches and coordinates in the Wheaton College Community Outreach for Developing Artists, CODA, an initiative that began in 2006, which has grown to offer early childhood and Suzuki violin and recorder classes to over 1,000 at-risk children, including 100 violinists, 40 recorders in connection with two school districts. Carol was the 12th SAA Conference Coordinator and served on the SAA board of directors. In 2007 she was awarded ASTA Outstanding Studio Teacher of Illinois. Carol is a clinician at workshops and institutes around the country. She studied violin with Dr. Suzuki in Matsumoto in 1985.

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