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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 are some of the finest teachers in the Pacific Northwest.
Their students have significantly advanced their personal musicianship. Most of the winners of major competitions study with affilliated Academy teachers.

We have a 100% record of graduate placement in prestigious music colleges, universities, and conservatories since 1997. This is a testimony to the very high quality of Academy studio teachers, coaches, conductors, 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 only a few private lessons for beginning children on Saturdays at our Bellevue Location for strings and piano. This is especially helpful to families with siblings enrolled.

A growing list of fine private studio teachers who are now, or have been, studio teachers of Academy students is below. This list continues to grow.

Please let us know of any errors or omissions at info@amnw.org
Thank you.

Dept. Chairs

Nancie Linn Shaw - Chamber Music Ensemble Director
Alan Futterman - Chamber Orchestra Director
Jan Coleman - String Chair
Willard Schultz - Piano Chair
Nancy Zylstra - Voice Chair 2008
Emily Greenleaf - Voice Chair 2009
Open - Wind Chair
Open - Brass Chair
Michael Crusoe - Percussion Chair
Byron Schenkman - Early Music Chair

Accompanists / Collaborators for recitals, adjudications, competitions, Performance Class:

Harumi Flesher
Hiro Imamura David
Meade Crane
Sachi Hirakouji
Tonya Siderius
Willard Schultz (Piano Chair)
Voice: Daniela Landolfi

Instruments: Alphabetically

Bass:
Barry Lieberman
Ben Musa
Jordan Anderson
Scott Teske

Bassoon:
Alan Futterman
Francine Peterson
Paul Rafanelli

Clarinet:
Jesse Canterbury
Mary Kantor
Laura DeLuca
Sean Osborn
William Blayney

Classical Guitar:
Scott Lindenmuth
Tom Baker

Composition:
Alan Futterman
Brian Cobb
Dorothy Klotzman
Eric Flesher
Jim Paul
Rachel Matthews
Tom Baker
Roupen Shakarian
Samuel Jones, SSO Resident Composer, (AMN Advisor) &
Director, SSO's Annual Young Composer Workshop

Flute:
Bonnie Blanchard
Christina Siemens
Heidi Ehle
Leslie Laibman
Wendy Wilhelmi
John DeJarnatt
Robert (Bob) Bonnevie
Sarah Bassingwaith
Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby

Harp:
Alison Austin
Juliet Stratton
Linda Wood Rollo

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

Percussion:
Matthew Kocmieroski
Michael Crusoe

Piano:
Willard Schultz, (Chair)
Cassandra Carr
Connie Hungate
Craig Sheppard
Dolores Borgir
Grace Chu
Helen Tavernti (Emeritus)
Hiro Imamura David
Joan Schoepflin
Judy Baker
Lora Verkhovsky
Marilyn Jacobson
Mariya Koshkina
Mary Toy
Michi Hirata North
Michiko Miyamoto (Emeritus)
Naoko Noguchi
Natalya Ageyeva
Peggy Swingle
Peter Mack
Rachel Matthews
Randall Jackson
Regina Yeh
Sharon Clark
Sharon Van Valin
Soonja Kim
Tonya Siderius
Valentina Grandmaison
Wayne Slater

Viola:
Brianna Atwell
Colin Todd
Melia Watras
Nancie Linn Shaw (Ensemble Director)
Roxanne Patterson

Violin:
Jan Coleman (Director Coleman Studio)
Simon James (Coleman Studio)
Corinne Odegard
Brianna Atwell
Colin Todd
Erna Soter
Evelyn Gottlieb
Gennady Filimonov
Helen Pagels
Ingrid Matthews (Baroque)
Jeannie Wells Yablonsky
Kent Coleman (Founding Chair, in memoriam)
Kim Zabelle
Michael Miropolsky
Mihoko Hirata
Ron Patterson
Sanja Futterman
Stephen Creswell

Violoncello:
Amos Yang
Barbara Balatero (Suzuki)
Bonnie Dike
Brad Hawkins
Leslie Marckx
Mara L Finkelstein
Meg Brennand
Olga Ruvinov
Page Smith
Rajan Krishnaswami
Raymond Davis
Toby Saks
Walter Gray

Voice:
Nancy Zylstra, Chair Emeritus
Emily Greenleaf, Chair 2009
Daniela Landolfi
Elizabeth Moore
Gary Jordan
Karen Nestvold
Kathleen Kernohan
Melissa Plagemann
Malya Muth
Nancy Fisher
Sherri Brookfield-Jordan
Susan Strick
Valerie Yockey