Who's Who at the Center for Young Musicians: Tanya Satteson

Tanya Satteson

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.