Instrumental and Vocal Teachers

We maintain a growing list of outstanding private teachers for referrals when requested. This list includes teachers who work with beginning traditional and Suzuki instruction, intermediate instruction, and those who work with advanced young musicians for all classical instruments, voice, and composition.

Studio teachers who have referred students to the Academy include some of the finest teachers in the Pacific Northwest. Their students have significantly advanced their personal musicianship in the Children's, Pre-College, and Adult Programs. Most of the winners of major competitions study with affiliated Academy teachers.

We have a 100% record of graduate placement in prestigious music colleges and conservatories since 1997. This is a testimony to the very high quality of Academy studio teachers, coaches, conductors, and accompanists, and music studies teachers of gifted young musicians. It does 'take a village' to rear a musician.

We welcome inquiries, and continue to expand the list of fine teachers who work with us by providing outstanding private studio lessons.

Currently, we can offer private lessons for beginning children on Saturdays at our Bellevue Location for strings and piano. This is especially helpful to families with siblings enrolled in different classes.

A growing list of fine private studio teachers who are now, or have been, studio teachers of Academy students is below. This list will continue to grow as other teachers work with us.

Please let us know of any errors or omissions at info@amnw.org Thank you.
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Dept. Chairs
Nancie Linn Shaw - Chamber Music Ensemble Director
Alan Futterman - Chamber Orchestra Director
Jan Coleman - String Chair
Willard Schultz - Piano Chair
Pending - Wind Chair
Pending - Voice Chair
Pending - Brass Chair
Michael Crusoe - Percussion Chair
Byron Schenkman - Early Music Chair

Accompanists / Collaborators for recitals, adjudications, competitions:
Charlotte Dike
Harumi Makiyama
Hiro Imamura David
Irina Akhrin
Jennifer Bowman
Lora Verkhovsky
Melissa Plagemann
Regina Yeh
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Instruments: Alphabetically
Bass:
Barry Lieberman
Ben Musa
Jordan Anderson

Bassoon:
Alan Futterman
Francine Peterson

Clarinet:
Bruce Wilson
Denise Lum
Kim Fay
Mary Kantor
Sean Osborn
William Blayney

Classical Guitar:
Scott Lindenmuth
Tom Baker

Composition:
Dorothy Klotzman
Eric Flesher
Jim Paul
Meade Crane
Samuel Jones, SSO Resident Composer, (AMN Advisor) &
Director, SSO's Annual Young Composer Workshop
Tom Baker

Flute:
Bonnie Blanchard
Christina Siemens
Heidi Ehle
Isabel Gallagher
Kristina Przyjemski
Leslie Laibman
Wendy Wilhelmi
John DeJarnatt
Robert (Bob) Bonnevie
Sarah Bassingwaith

Harp:
Alison Austin
Juliet Stratton
Linda Wood Rollo

Oboe:
Amy Duerr Day
Darlene Franz
Glen Danielson (also English Horn)
Joy Hamilton

Piano:
Bela Siki
Cassandra Carr
Connie Hungate
Craig Sheppard
Dolores Borgir
Grace Chu
Helen Tavernti (Emeritus)
Hiro David
Joan Schoepflin
Judy Baker
Kate Hokanson
Ken Moses
Keva Vaughan-McMorrow
Kristine Anderson
Lora Verkhovsky
Marilyn Jacobson
Mariya Koshkina
Mark Salman
Mary Toy
Michi Hirata North
Michiko Miyamoto
Naoko Noguchi
Peggy Swingle
Peter Mack
Rachel Matthews
Randall Jackson
Regina Yeh
Rosemary Wenzl
Sharon Clark
Sharon Van Valin
Soonja Kim
Valentina Grandmaison
Wayne Slater
Willard Schultz (Chair)

Viola:
Brianna Atwell
Colin Todd
Melia Watras
Nancie Linn Shaw
Scott Ligocki

Violin:
Corinne Odegard
Brianna Atwell
Colin Todd
Erna Soter
Evelyn Gottlieb
Gennady Filimonov
Gretchen Woods
Helen Pagels
Ilya Spiegelman
Ingrid Matthews (Baroque)
Jan Coleman, Chair
Jeannie WellsYablonsky
Keesoon Namkung (Suzuki)
Kent Coleman (Founding Chair, in memoriam)
Kim Zabelle
Larissa Miropolsky (in memoriam)
Leonid Keylin
Margaret Pressley
Maria Larionoff
Marjorie Kransberg-Talvi
Michael Miropolsky
Miodrag Veselinovic
Mihoko Hirata
Ron Patterson
Sanja Futterman
Simon James
Stephen Creswell

Violoncello:
Amos Yang
Barbara Balatero
Bonnie Dike
Lauren Root
Leslie Marckx
Mara L Finkelstein
Meg Brennand
Olga Ruvinov
Page Smith
Rajan Krishnaswami
Raymond Davis
Shiang-Yin Lee
Toby Saks
Walter Gray

Voice
Elizabeth Moore
Karen Nestvold
Kathleen Kernohan
Melissa Plagemann
Malya Muth
Nancy Fisher
Nancy Zylstra
Sherri Brookfield-Jordan
Susan Strick