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Music Schools featuring violin education

If you know of a good music school not listed here, send me the URL and I'll check it out!

Updated: April 27, 2015

School name/website URL Violin Faculty
American Conservatory American International Conservatory - Hammond, IN
Charles Pickler, Rebecca Yoon, Marvin Ziporyn, Andreanna Moravec, Ki Joo Lee, Fr Edward McKenna, Otto Schulze
American Conservatory
 
ASU School of Music, Tempe, AZ
Jonathan Swartz (violin), Nancy Buck (viola), Danwen Jiang (violin), Katherine McLin (violin) website: ASU Herberger School of Music
Baldwin Conservatory of Music Baldwin-Wallace, Berea OH
Dr Julian Ross, Wei-Shu Wang Co, violin, Annie Fullard, violin, Barton Samuel Rotberg, violin, Louise Zeitlin, viola
website: Baldwin Conservatory of Music
Baylor School of Music, Waco, TX
Bruce Berg, violin, Eka Gogichashvili, violin, Kathryn Steely, viola.
website: http://www.baylor.edu/music/
Belmont School of music Belmont School of music, Nashville, TN (Christian)
Elisabeth Small, all strings
website: Belmont School of Music

Blair-Vanderbilt, Nashville TN
Violin facility: Cornelia Heard, Christian Teal, Celeste Halbrook Tuten (Suzuki violin), Denise Baker, Jessica Blackwell, Seanad Dunigan Chang (violin and viola), Wei Tsun Chang, Karen Clarke, Gerald Greer, Sara Newman Johnson, Mary Kathryn Vanosdale
Website: Blair School of Music
Boston Conservatory The Boston Conservatory, Boston, MASS
Violin faculty: Lynn Chang, Judith Eissenberg, Ronan Lefkowitz, Sharan Leventhal, Joseph McGauley, Irina Muresanu, Rictor Noren, Markus Placci, Magdalena Richter
website: The Boston Conservatory
BSU School of Musical Arts Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Violin Faculty: Vasile Beluska, Penny Kruse
website: BGSU College of Musical Arts
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Brooklyn Conservatory, Brooklyn, NY
Violin Faculty: Masao Kawasaki, Naoka Tanaka,Liang Chai, Hyo Kang, Patrinka Kopek, Matthew Reichert
website: Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music
Butler Jordan School of Music Butler - Jordan School of Fine Arts, Indianapolis, IN
Dr Davis Brooks, Dr Lisa Evans Brooks, Dr Richard Auldon Clark
website: Butler University Department of Music

Lindsay Davis, fiddle, Alexander Woods, violin, Lee Ann Morgan, violin,  Monte Belnap, violin
BYU,
C-550 Harris Fine Arts Center, Provo, UT,
Website: https://cfac.byu.edu/music/

California Institute of the arts California Inst of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Mark Menzies, Lorenz Gamma
Website: CalArts School of Music Home Page

 
Cal State-Fullerton, Sacramento, CA
Ian Swenson , Anna Presler, violin
Website:
CSUS Music Department
 

 
California State- Longbeach, CA
Andrea Byers, Linda Rose, Kimiyo Takeya, Lorenz Gamma, Henri Gronnier
Website: CSULB Music Department
 

 

Cal State - Northridge, CA
Michael Ferril
Website: CSUN Music Department
Carnegie Mellon School of Music, Pittsburgh, PA
Andre Cardenes, Christopher Wu
Website: Carnegie Mellon School of Music

 
Central Michigan School of Music,
Mt Pleasant, MI

Seunghee Lee
Website: School of Music


 

Roosevelt Univ - Chicago Musical College, Chicago, IL
Shmuel Ashkenasi, Laura Park Chen, Robert Chen, Nathan Cole, Teresa Fream, Vadim Gluzman, Stefan Hersh, Jasmine Lin, Yang Liu
Website: Chicago College of Performing Arts-The Music Conservatory

Cincinnati Conservatory of Music - U of Cincinnati, OH
Piotr Milewski, Kurt Sassmannshaus, Won-Bin Yim, Gabriel Pegis, Anna Reider
Website: Conservatory of music
Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, OH
Leslie Braidech, Jiah Chung, Vladimir Deninzon, Wei-Fang Gu, Rachel Huch, Paul Kantor, Joan Kwuon,Eugenia Poustyreva, William Preucil, Christiana Reader, Joel Smirnoff, Shannon Thomas, David Updegraff
Website: Cleveland Inst of Music

 
Earl C. Coleman et al
Website: Schwob School of Music

Columbus, GA (website is difficult to navigate - suggest contact help desk to find info)

 

The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, PA,
Shmuel Ashkenasi, Pamela Frank, Ida Kavafian,
Aaron Rosand, Yumi Ninomiya Scott, Joseph Silverstein, Arnold Steinhardt

 

DePaul School of Music, Chicago, IL
Joseph Genualdi, Stefan Hersh, Hilel Kagan, Mark Zinger
 

 
DePauw Univ, Greencastle, IN, Dan Rizner
Mary Pappert School of Music, Pittsburgh, PA,
Charles Stegeman, Hong-Guang Jia,  Rachel Purkin, Christopher Wu
 
Eastern Carolina, Greenville, NC
School of Music
Ara Gregorian, Paul Topper
Eastern Washington Univ, Cheney, WA
http://www.ewu.edu/cal/music
Dr Phillip Baldwin
Eastman School of Music Rochester, NY Lynn Blakeslee, David Brickman, Charles Castleman, Oleh Krysa, Zvi Zeitlin
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
IU School of Music
Paul Biss, Miriam Fried, Mauricio Fuks, Ilya Kaler, Stanley Ritchie,
Nelli Shkolnikova, Henry Kowalski, Ik-Hwan Bae
The Juilliard School Lincoln Center for the performing Arts, NY, NY Carlyss, Earl , Cho, Catherine;  Clapp, Stephen ; Copes, Ronald;  Dicterow, Glenn; Kang, Hyo; Kaplan, Lewis ; Kawasaki, Masao;  Lin, Cho-Liang;  Mann, Robert;  Pardee, Margaret;  Perlman, Itzhak;  Smirnoff, Joel;  Tanaka, Naoko;  Thomas, Sally; Weilerstein, Donald

 
Kent State, Kent, OH
Hugh A. Glauser School of Music
Gregory Fulkerson, Almita Vamos
Lamont - Univ of Denver, Denver, CO
University of Denver, Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
James Maurer, Chair, Yumi Hwang, Jeri Jorgensen, Joo-Mee Lee,
Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA Holly Barnes, Laura Bossert, Susanna Cortesio, Esther DeGrunigen, Jennifer Elowitch, Clayton Hoener, Valeria Vilker Kuchment, Lucia Lin,
Malcolm Lowe, Dana Pomerants-Mazurkevich, Janet Packer, Kirsi Perttuli, Dianne Pettipaw, Eric Rosenblith, Sophia Sogland, Roman Totenberg, Sophia Vilker, Yuan-Mei Xing, Marta Zurad
Manhattan School of Music, NY, NY Stanley Bednar, Ariana Broone, Laurie Carney, Glenn Dicterow, Burton Kaplan, Patinka Kopec, Curtis Macomber, Isaac Malkin, Albert Markov, Lucie Robert, Sylvia Rosenberg, Sheryl Staples, Mitchell Stern, Yoko Takebe, Neil Weintrob, Peter Winograd, Pinchas Zukerman
Mannes College of Music, NY, NY Lewis Kaplan, Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, Todd Phillips, Daniel Phillips, Sally Thomas, Lucie Robert, Hiroko Yajima, Nina
Beilina, Shirley Givens, Margaret Pardee
The University of Michigan School of Music, 1100 Baits Dr
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2085
Aaron Berofsky, Yehonatan Berick, Andrew Jennings, Paul Kantor, Stephen Shipps
Moores School of Music, University of Houston , Houston, TX Andrzej Grabiec, Albert Muenzer, Fredell Lack,  Emmanuel Borok
New England Conservatory of Music 
Boston, MA
Robert Brink, James Buswell , Marylou Speaker Churchill, Nancy Cirillo,
Miriam Fried, Nicholas Kitchen, Malcolm Lowe, Eric Rosenblith, Lucy Stoltzman, Masuko Ushioda, Valeria Vilker-Kuchment, Donald Weilerstein
 
Northern Illinois University School of Music
De Kalb, IL
NIU Music - Faculty:  Shmuel Ashkenasi, Ann Montzka-Smelser, Mathias Tacke
Northwestern University School of Music
Evanston, IL
Blair Milton, Gerardo Ribeiro, Almita Vamos, Roland Vamos
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Oberlin, OH
Gregory Fulkerson, Andrew Jennings, Kyung Sun Lee, Marilyn McDonald (Baroque Violin), Milan Vitek
Peabody Institute
Baltimore, MD
Victor Danchenko, Pamela Frank, Shirley Givens, Herbert Greenberg, Violaine Melancon, Keng-Yuen Tseng
San Francisco Conservatory Of Music
San Francisco, CA
Stuart Canin, Wei He, Bettina Mussumeli, Axel Strauss, Ian Swensen, Camilla Wicks
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6111 Laura Kobayashi, DMA - violin, Howard Levin, viola

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