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Who’s Who at the Center for Young Musicians: Tanya
Satteson
A new school year will mean fresh faces at the Center for Young Musicians!
We are excited to announce that new
teachers for piano, cello and guitar will be joining the CYM family,
bringing unique experiences and solid training in music education. And as
always, we happily look forward to greeting new students and their families.
To help everyone get to know each other a little better, we’ll be posting
short bios on all the CYM teachers and staff. Three cheers for Tanya Satteson, a Violin Teacher at CYM
since 2007.
Tanya Satteson is
a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music where she earned her Master's
Degree in Violin Performance, and was awarded the Dean's Award for Academic
Achievement. Tanya completed her post-secondary studies with Scott St. John,
Gwen Hoebig, and Paul Kantor. She completed her Suzuki pedagogical training
with Kimberly Meier-Sims, director of the Sato Center for Suzuki Studies at the
Cleveland Institute of Music. Tanya attended numerous summer festivals
including the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Music Bridge Program where she
worked with many distinguished teachers.
Tanya worked as a full-
and part-time member of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra for four seasons, and
was a member of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra for two seasons. She has appeared
as soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, University of Manitoba
Symphony Orchestra, and the National Repertory Orchestra. Tanya has won the Women's Musical Club
Competition of Winnipeg, the University of Manitoba Concerto Competition, the
Lawrence Genser Performance Competition,
and the Young Artists Performance Competition. She has been awarded a first
place standing and scholarship at the National Finals of the Canadian Music
Competition three times.
In 2006, she was appointed
assistant concertmaster of the National Repertory Orchestra and was also
awarded a generous grant from the Canada Arts Council. In 2008 she performed with the Winnipeg
Chamber Music Society. She served as a clinician for the Academy of Strings
spring workshop in Tennessee in 2008 and 2009. In the fall of 2008, Tanya
joined the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra on their North American tour. The group
performed at six locations including Vancouver’s Orpheum Theater and Toronto’s
Roy Thomson Hall.
In
2010, Tanya returned to her hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to serve as
a clinician at the University of Manitoba’s Preparatory Studies Division Suzuki
workshop. Tanya has enjoyed working as
an early childhood music and violin faculty member at the Center for Young
Musicians since 2007. She and her
husband Jason reside in Cranberry Township, and are expecting their first child
this fall.
This year, Ms.
Tanya is taking a break from her many years leading Toddlers, Twinklers,
Literacy and other group classes to focus on bringing her own young musician
into the world. She will continue to teach a busy load of private technique
classes to violin students.
Q
& A with CYM
CYM: Favorite piece of music to play
and/or favorite composer?
Ms. Tanya: The unaccompanied Bach Violin Sonatas
and Partitas.
CYM: Do you play other
instruments other than the instrument you teach/study?
Ms. Tanya: A little piano. I also played marimba,
timpani, and snare drum in band at school. We had a great teacher, and a really
good percussion ensemble that actually competed and stuff, and i had a lot of
fun with it. I can actually also play a basic rock beat on the drum set which i
learned while playing "hit me with your best shot" with our Grade 8
band -- haha.
I learned it on an assortment of kitchen pots and pans, set up in drum set
formation in my parent's kitchen (much to my mom's chagrin).
CYM:
When/where/how do you listen to music for fun?
Ms. Tanya: I honestly don't listen to music much. I think i am
over-saturated after a day of practicing, singing, listening, and teaching, and
I actually often even drive home in silence. I listen to my current repertoire
on my iPod while i run or walk sometimes. I do like listening to the radio in
the car some days...and I might occasionally be caught singing along. Never at
red lights, though :).
CYM: If you could have lunch with
anyone, who would it be (and what would you eat)?
Ms.
Tanya: Well, I'm not really into famous people much. I would honestly
probably cash in my ticket to have lunch with my best friend from Canada. We
would have a picnic together, and I'd probably make some kind of allergen-free
concoction that I could eat, and fruit salad for dessert.
CYM: Favorite childhood book?
Ms.
Tanya: I loved Harriet the Spy as a kid. I even spent part of second
grade walking around with a little red notebook trying to be just like her. And
I went through a phase with Nancy Drew.
