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Andrea Martinson-Venincasa Suzuki String Specialist
In 1998 Ms. Venincasa received a Master of Music in Suzuki Pedagogy from East Carolina University (ECU) in Greenville, North Carolina where she studied with Joanne Bath. She was also a graduate assistant for Ms. Bath during her Masters course. While pursuing her graduate studies at ECU she received a Suzuki Association of the Americas scholarship. Andrea was awarded a second Master of Music degree, in Violin Performance by the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford, CT. While at the Hartt School of Music she studied with Linda Fiore and Brian Lewis. She also participated in Master Classes with members of the Emerson Quartet and Lions Gate Trio. Ms.Martinson has taken Suzuki coursework from Marilyn O’Boyle, Nancy Lokken, Craig Timmerman Alice Joy Lewis, Ed Sprunger , Patricia D'Ercole, and Tom Wermuth. In addition to the violin books, she has done Suzuki coursework in group lessons, advanced group lessons, the works of Fritz Kreisler, Bach Violin Sonatas and Partitas, and child development. She has received training from Betsy Stuen-Walker in Suzuki viola books 1-6, viola book 8, and supplemental viola literature. She studied viola with Susan DuBois at University of North Texas.
Ms. Venincasa has maintained private violin and viola studios in Mankato Minnesota, Greenville (NC), and Hartford (CT). She has taught at the New Ulm Minnesota Suzuki School of Music in Mankato and the Hartt School of Music Community Division. She has performed with the Mankato Symphony for eight years, the St. Cloud Symphony and the Tar River (NC) Symphony.
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