Teacher: KAREN DEWITT
Experience:
- Toddler classes: Mendon Library, Victor Library, Victor Music Experience, NewSong Studio
- Vocal master class guest speaker and teacher
- Lima Baptist Church Choir Director, 2004-2006
- 20+ years of private teaching experience:
- Grove City College student teaching
- TruMusic Inc, Seattle WA
- NewSong Studio, Seattle, Lima and Rochester, NY
- Victor Music Experience private teaching
- Internationally- East Africa
EDUCATION:
- Private piano lessons since age 6
- Private lessons in violin and voice since age 13
- High School: Solo and Ensemble, All State, orchestra, jazz band, show choir
- Bachelor of Arts in Music Business, Grove City College
- Studied the science of early childhood music development
at a research-based music lesson company in Seattle
- Member of Rochester Piano Teachers Guild
- Member of Suzuki Association of America
- 2022 Piano Pedagogy Workshop: Dennis Alexander, Nazareth College
- 2024 Piano Pedagogy Workshop: Theresa Bogard, Nazareth College
- Italian Singing MasterClass with Dr. Robert Shewan, Dr. Judy Marlette, and Pamela Gilbert 2022
- Master Lesson with Rami Bar-Niv, author of The Art of Piano Fingering
PERFORMANCE:
- Indiana All-State Choir
- Recording, One Desire, 57th Street Productions
- National Anthem vocalist for NFL’s Seattle Seahawks
- Vocalist: Robert Schumann’s A Women’s Life and Love for Washington State Music Teacher’s Association
- Violinist for Sammamish and Avon Symphonies
- Accompanist at Kilbourn Hall, Eastman
- NHS Induction Ceremony Pianist
- Harvest Bible Chapel Worship Band: vocalist, keyboard, violin, bass
- Pianist for funerals, weddings, parties, school programs
- Fairport Musicales
