We are lucky to get do what we love. Over the past fifty years we have been blessed by the opportunity to study with wonderful teachers and to continue to learn from our amazing performing and teaching colleagues (info about our current performing ensembles here). For over twenty-five years, we have had the honor of sharing music with a wide variety of students. Annie, who previously taught violin at The Hotchkiss School for many years, now runs a Violin and Chamber Music program at The Master’s School in Simsbury, CT open to both Master’s School students and other families. Steve has taught viola and violin at The Hartt School of the University of Hartford since 1998, from beginners through advanced graduate students and adult learners. Since 2007 he has also taught viola and chamber music each July at the Wintergreen Festival in Virginia. We are both active coaches for The Hartt School Community Division’s vibrant chamber music program in addition to teaching at our home studio in Winsted, CT and online.
In addition to the joyful and fun aspects of learning to play music, we love being able to communicate to our students that through their lessons and practicing they are becoming part of a tradition of string playing that traces its roots through our own teachers back to the very beginnings of the violin and viola. We think it can be exciting and empowering for students to know that they are not separated from the great players and composers of the past by some magical barrier. Without any exaggeration it is possible tell our students that they are in the process of becoming direct musical descendants of seemingly legendary teachers and performers such as Shinichi Suzuki, Ivan Galamian, Carl Flesch, Jascha Heifetz, Joseph & Lillian Fuchs, Karen Tuttle, Leopold Auer, etc. Their legacies live on in the players and teachers of today and we want to help it live on in the students of the next generation.
Please feel free to contact us, whether to set up a lesson, or to just ask any questions you might have.
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