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[quote=Anonymous]Emil can be contacted at SqWoland@aol.com
Emil has a studio of mixed ages and abilities, but he tends to prefer kids who are in elementary through high school. Some of his students are very serious pre-professional teenagers. He is musically discerning and pedagogically structured. However, he is also personally disorganized.

David Strom and Ronda Cole teach in a very similar fashion. Ronda specifically likes working with him because she thinks of him as a near-clone. Ronda has physical limitations due to age and an accident that make it more difficult for her to demonstrate these days. David is a very adept teacher of group classes and from what I've seen, somewhat more patience than Ronda. However, I think Ronda might be better with really little kids.

Ronda and David are both very exacting, with a One True Way of doing things, especially with younger kids. However, they encourage students to be actively involved with their own development and to make their own choices; they are not producing robotic imitators of recordings (as can sometimes happen in Suzuki studios). Their teenaged students receive more flexibility and are much more strongly encouraged to develop their own personalities. They are both unusual in that they teach nearly the whole gamut of skill well, from pint-sized beginners to high schoolers aiming for professional careers.

Ronda and David both have the quirk that their younger students have to come during the school day, which is functionally impossible for many families that don't home-school.

The pandemic year has been unusual for studio attrition and a lot of good teachers have openings in their studios even if they normally have significant waiting lists.

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