Cathy Hargrave
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Cathy Williams Hargrave holds a Bachelor of Music
degree in Piano Performance from the University of Louisville School of Music and a Master
of Music from the Jordan College of Fine Arts at Butler University. In 1979 she began teaching Suzuki piano and has taught in the preparatory departments of the University of Louisville and Butler University. In 1983 she went to The Talent Education Institute in Matsumoto, Japan to study with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, the creator of The Suzuki Method, and Dr. Haruko Kataoka, a pioneer of the Suzuki piano method. Within one year she received a teaching certificate from The Talent Education Institute. For five years she was the founding president of Suzuki for Children, a non-profit organization in Crestwood, KY. She later returned to The Talent Education Institute for an additional three years of study with Dr. Kataoka. As a registered teacher trainer and member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas, Ms. Hargrave has been a guest speaker and clinician at national teachers' conferences and has taught teachers and students at Suzuki workshops in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. She is a member of the Music Teachers National Association and Mu Phi Epsilon Music Fraternity, and teaches at her own studio, Piano Basics of Dallas. She is married to Dr. Bruce Hargrave and has a daughter, Bethany. PRODUCTS: |