AASPA members include many fantastic Suzuki piano teachers in the Atlanta area. Below you will find a list of our active teaching members.
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Robin Blankenship
Robin Blankenship has taught Suzuki Piano since 1986. She enjoys training students to reach their full potential using Suzuki philosophy of Talent Education. All children can learn to play music, just as all children learn to speak their native language. Many of her students have gone on to become music teachers as well as develop a life-long love of music.
Her training includes a Bachelor of music degree in Piano Performance from West Georgia State University. She studied with Dr. Haruko Kataoka the founder of Suzuki Piano Basics both in Japan and the United States. In addition, she has participated in numerous masterclasses and workshops including SAA Teacher Training. (Suzuki Association of Americas)
She is a founding member of AASPA and has served in all capacities including president, workshop director, and graduation director. In addition, she has co-directed several 5-Piano Concerts and taught master classes at Suzuki Piano Workshops.
Her students have performed in the Suzuki Method 10-Piano Concerts in Japan as well as Graduation and Friendship Concerts and Institutes around the country. In addition to teaching children, she has trained and mentored Suzuki Piano Teachers.
She maintains a studio with students of all ages and levels in Marietta, Georgia.
Judy Blase
Judith Kapplin Blase has been teaching Suzuki Piano for 40 years in Atlanta and was the founder and director of the Atlanta Yamaha and Suzuki Music Schools located in Dunwoody, East Cobb and Lilburn since 1975.
Barbara Brown
I enjoy teaching children, and I feel very fortunate while at Oberlin College to have discovered the Suzuki Piano Basics method because of its emphasis on beautiful tone and a natural, relaxed body.
Brooke Chumachenko
Brooke Chumachenko began Suzuki Method piano lessons at the age of 3, when her mother discovered her playing Mozart. She continued her studies at the Griffin School of Music studying privately, and at the age of 15 completed their internship program.
Rosalba Coeto
Rosalba Coeto began her piano studies in Mexico in 1985 at Nazario Music School and later, she had private lessons with Raquel Uribe.
Nancy Lewis
Brian Parks
Marietta and North Decatur
www.brianparks.work
Brian Parks is a former Suzuki piano student of Leah Brammer and in 2001 became the first Level Ten Graduate in the AASPA program to perform a complete concerto with orchestra at Spivey Hall.
Kathie Sheeley
Kathie Sheeley has been teaching Suzuki Piano since 1999 and has trained with Dr. Haruko Kataoka, co-founder of the Suzuki Piano Method and colleague of Dr. Suzuki for over 40 years.
Anita Smith
I first studied piano in Barre, Vermont with Doris Fowler, who would take me to the wooded Adamant Music School in our locale.
