Suzuki Summer Institute

Fay Swadley Adams, Professor Emeritus,  University of Tennessee Knoxville, is a master Suzuki piano teacher. While at the university , she taught piano, piano pedagogy and Suzuki pedagogy. Her awards include 2016 MTNA National Teacher of the Year. She has served as a Suzuki piano clinician at workshops across the United States, Mexico, Bermuda, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.   

Sara Stephens Kotrba earned her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.  She has studied with Doris Harrel, Betty Mallard, David Renner, Kiyoshi Tamagawa, Sophia Gilmson and Amanda Vick Lethco. She has been teaching Suzuki Piano since 1990.  She is especially dedicated to her Suzuki families, helping nurture their love of music through creative practice tools and musical ideas. She is a past president of the Twin Cities Suzuki Piano Teacher’s Guild.  She has taught at workshops around the country, including the Heart of Texas Suzuki Institute, the Houston Suzuki Piano Institute and the Colorado Suzuki Institute.  She has twice presented at the National Suzuki Conference where her students were also invited to perform in master classes.

David Madsen founded what is now the Hartt Suzuki Guitar Program in ‘90. He is the Chair of the Guitar and Harp Dept. of the Community Division at the Hartt School of Music. He became a registered Teacher Trainer with the Suzuki Association of the Americas in 2000, and has conducted training courses throughout North America and in Peru and Argentina. Mr. is a member of the SAA Guitar Committee. David teaches the Suzuki Pedagogy courses for the first long term training program in the country for Suzuki guitar at the University of Hartford.