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Faculty – Suzuki String Academy

BECKY JOHNSON
Suzuki Violin & Viola, Suzuki Academy Coordinator

M.M. (Suzuki pedagogy), Ithaca College; B.M. (viola performance), Oberlin Conservatory.

Wisconsin-born violinist and violist. Trained with Carrie Reuning-Hummel at Ithaca College. Her other teachers include Peter Slowik, David Quiggle, Yuliya Smead, and Barbara Beechey. Johnson has received additional Suzuki training from Sandy Reuning, Kimberly Meier-Sims, Ed Kreitman, and Tom Wermuth. As an orchestral musician, Johnson has performed as a member of The Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, and the National Festival Orchestra at the National Orchestral Institute. She has also performed as a member of the Florestan Quartet and as part of the Credo Chamber Music Festival. Johnson has been teaching for over ten years.

Drew Owen with cello
DREW OWEN
Suzuki Cello, Cello

M.M., Cleveland Institute of Music; B.M., College Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati; Aspen Music Festival, Fellowship student.

Instructor, Howard, Tulane Universities. Former member, New Orleans Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Performs with the National Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, and Washington National Opera; has toured Japan with the Washington National Opera, and China and Korea with the National Symphony.

Avner Finberg
AVNER FINBERG
Suzuki Academy Violin, Violin, Music Theory, Composition

D.M.A., composition, Manhattan School of Music; M.M. composition, Mannes College; M.M. violin, B.M., composition, B.M. violin, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance 

Faculty, Suzuki violin, Opus Ithaca (NY); Violin, chamber music, conductor, Amadeus Music School, (Chappaqua, NY); Director of Strings, “Hadasim” Elementary School, (Yoqneam, Israel); Visiting Instructor, Syracuse University (NY); Substitute violinist, Israel Philharmonic (Tel-Aviv); Solo and chamber music: Opus Ithaca Community Concert Series, OSFL Chamber Series, Spectrum NYC, Firehouse Space, Ensemble INMC, Tiroler ensemble für newe musik, (Innsbruck, Austria). Suzuki training, Ithaca College, Montreal, Canada; Teaching certification, strings, Israeli Ministry of Education. Compositions commissioned by the Meitar Ensemble, ensemble mise-en, The Boston New Music Initiative, Ensemble Platypus Wien, The Ithaca New Music Collective, Cisum Percussion, The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. Awards: 2017 Kirkoskammer Chamber Music Competition, Chamber Music Rochester Award, the Bard Prize, 2014 Kol Emet Young Composers competition, finalist, 2018 Banaue International Music Composition Competition in The Philippines.

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