Christine Wilkinson Beckman

Christine Wilkinson Beckman is baroque violin specialist and a violin and viola teacher based in Olympia, WA.  She enjoys performing throughout her native Northwest with early music ensembles large and small and appears regularly with such groups as the Seattle, Portland, and Pacific Baroque Orchestras, Oregon Bach Festival, Pacific MusicWorks, and Bach Collegium San Diego.  Christine began her studies on baroque violin with Ingrid Matthews, and she graduated in 2013 with an MA from the Historical Performance Practices program at Case Western Reserve University where she studied with Julie Andrijeski.  She received her BM in Violin Performance from St. Olaf College.

A Suzuki student herself (student of Barbara Riley), Christine is delighted to again be a part of the Suzuki family.  Her Suzuki teacher training has been with Elizabeth Stuen-Walker, Dr. Susan Baer, Cathryn Lee, and Fernando Piñero.  When not teaching or performing, Christine enjoys reading about linguistics and the natural sciences, drinking tea with lots of milk and sugar, knitting, and listening to the rain with her husband and two young children.