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Joyce Mizer is Co-Director of the Suzuki Institute. She has degrees
from Madison College, James Madison University and Sherwood School of Music of Chicago. Joyce taught in public schools for
18 years in instrumental music, 5th through 12th grades. As the teacher-director of the instrumental music program at Wilson
Memorial High School she achieved highest honors at the state level. She organized the first Suzuki program in the Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia in 1983. She attended the Catholic University and received training with the Suzuki Association of the
Americas in Washington, D.C. Her students performed at the Kennedy Center and Wolf Trap Farm in Virginia. Joyce served as
an associate professor of music at Bridgewater College in Virginia. She was an adjunct faculty member of the Sherwood Music
School. She was a guest artist at the Pentagon as organist and conducted The United States Air Force Band, Col. Arnold D.
Gabriel, Commander. She adjudicates orchestra, band, solo and ensemble festivals throughout the southeast. Joyce is a member
of the Suzuki Association of the Americas and a founding teacher with the Carnegie Hall Royal Achievement Program in the United
States. In 2004 she was nominated to Who's Who for her service and dedication to the arts. She has been a member in good standing
with the National Education Association.
Maria Kurzynska is a graduate of the Paderewski
Academy of Music in Poznan (Poland), where she was a student of harpsichord in the class of Professor Flatau, who,
in turn, was a pupil of the famous Wanda Landowska. Maria also attended master courses with the Chech harpsichord virtuoso
Z. Ruzickova in Prague. For a number of years she taught courses in harpsichord, piano, and accompaniment at the Poznan
Lyccum of Music. In the countrywide Polish Competition of wind instruments, she was recognized for her outstanding
skills as an accompanist. Ms. Kurzynska now resides and works in Sarasota Florida. She teaches piano and harpsichord at the
Suzuki Institute School of Music as well as leads her own baroque ensemble, "Tre Voci". Maria is
a registered teacher with the National Music Certificate Program.
Nikki Lachambre moved to Sarasota from Kingston,
Jamaica in 1999. In Jamaica, she studied piano performance with Barbara Lloyd at the Edna Manley College of Visual
and Performing Arts and earned several piano certificates from theAssociated Board of the Royal Schools of
Music. Since moving to Florida, she continued her piano studies with Naomi Niskala at theUniversity of South
Florida and earned her degree in piano with an emphasis on music history. Nikki became a member of the Music
Teachers National Associationalong with its State and local affiliates and began teaching piano flute, and music
theory/composition in Sarasota in 2003. She is also a member of the National Federation of Music Clubs along
with its State and local affiliates, and a Certified Musikgarten Instructor. Nikki is a registered teacher
with the National Music Certificate Program, a judge for Festival, an instrumentalist with the Incarnation
Folk Group, Executive Board Member of the Sarasota Teachers Music Association and Gold Cup Chairperson for Seminole District.
Laura Miller received a Bachelor of Sacred Music from Florida Southern College with a concentration in voice and piano. She has served as a pianist in church and teaches both voice and piano at the Institute. She has instructed with the Florida West Coast Children's Chorus as well. In addition to instructing at the Institute, Laura is also on the staff at the First United Methodist Church. Laura is a registered teacher with the National Music Certificate Program. |
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