Violinist Margaret Carpenter enjoys teaching a wide range of students, from just-out-of-Pull-Ups Pre-Twinklers through sleep-deprived Bruch Concerto-performing teenagers.  Before Ms. Carpenter moved to Santa Fe in 2003 to co-direct Santa Fe  Talent Education she had been co-founder and director of Omaha Talent Education. Ms. Carpenter was a member of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra for eleven years.  In addition to her work with SFTE, she is on the staff of the New Mexico Suzuki Institute. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, she studied violin with Marilyn McDonald and Stephen Clapp. Ms. Carpenter was a finalist in the Oberlin Concerto Competition and a scholarship student for three summers at the Aspen Music Festival. Ms.Carpenter did graduate work at DePaul University in Chicago with violinist Joseph Genualdi. While in Chicago, Ms. Carpenter was a Civic Orchestra of Chicago Fellow, performed in a master class with Pinchas Zukerman and live on WFMT. At DePaul she studied chamber music with violist Rami Solomonow.

Ms. Carpenter has been on the faculty at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she performed in the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra and Eastern Chamber Players, coached chamber music and was chair of the theory department.  In Omaha, she was a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Creighton University. Ms. Carpenter has performed with the Manly Street Chamber Players, Des Moines Metro Opera, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra and with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra on tour. She was soloist with the Santa Fe Community Orchestra in Prokofiev’s Concerto #2 in G Minor in 2006. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Ms. Carpenter started her violin studies at age four with Suzuki teacher Marilyn O’Boyle, graduating from Suzuki Volume 10 at age 13. A teacher since the Reagan administration, she has presented master classes at Eastern Music Festival and William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.

She has studied Suzuki pedagogy at the American Suzuki Institute, the Colorado Suzuki Institute, the Ottawa Suzuki Institute Mid-Southwest, and at the MacPhail Center for the Arts in Minneapolis. Her teacher trainers include Marilyn O’Boyle, Doris Preucil, Mark Bjork, Craig Timmerman, Louise Scott, Carol Dallinger and Nancy Lokken. She was the recipient of the Suzuki Association of the Americas’ D’Addario Scholarship,the Potter’s Violins Scholarship, a Colorado Suzuki Institute teacher scholarship and a Suzuki Memorial/American Suzuki Institute grant. She has been on the faculty of the Lincoln Suzuki Institute, the Ottawa Suzuki Institute and the Santa Fe Suzuki Institute. An active member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas, she was the coordinator of the Suzuki Youth Orchestras of America for the 2004 Conference in Minneapolis.

Ms. Carpenter’s favorite Book 1 song is Go Tell Aunt Rhody. She enjoys hiking, camping, horseback riding, cooking and listening to opera. She lives with her dog, Lily, and two cats, John and Doris.

Prior to his arrival in Santa Fe, Rick Lohmann was co-director, with Margaret Carpenter, of Omaha Talent Education, founded in 1999.  He served as Concertmaster of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra from 1985-2000, and Assistant Concertmaster for five years prior to that.  He appeared as soloist with the orchestra on an annual basis. He was awarded his Bachelor of Music at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and the Master of Music at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Mr. Lohmann did additional graduate work at Penn State University and the University of Miami at Coral Gables.  His principal violin teachers include Gerald Stanick, Andor Toth, Sr., and Thomas Moore; his principal chamber music instructors include members of the Fine Arts, Pro Arte, and New Hungarian Quartets.

He has completed and registered SAA Suzuki teacher training (through Violin Book 8 and two Practicums) with Marilyn O’Boyle, Joanne Bath, Pat D’Ercole, Liz Arbus, Susan Baer, Nancy Lokken and Nancy Jackson. He received the Suzuki Association of the Americas’ Joe Cleveland Memorial Scholarship two years in a row (2000,2001), and is the first person to receive the Suzuki Memorial/American Suzuki Institute grant two years in a row (1999, 2000).

Mr. Lohmann first came to New Mexico in the 1970′s as a student at the Taos School of Music, where he did three summers of intensive study with the New Hungarian Quartet.  He spent one season as a Resident Artist at the Banff Centre Advanced Studies in Music Winter Program, where he was the recipient of a Leighton scholarship. While at Banff, Mr. Lohmann performed with pianist Anton Kuerti and violist Bruno Pasquier, and studied with Camilla Wicks, Lorand Fenyves and Thomas Brandis, among many others. Mr. Lohmann has been resident or guest with many music festivals, including the Telluride Chamber Music Festival, Music in the Mountains at Rocky Ridge, the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, the Des Moines Metro Opera, Peninsula Festival, Spoleto USA, Festival Dei Due Mondi (Spoleto, Italy), and the Colorado Philharmonic.  For five years he was the Principal Second Violinist of the Cabrillo Music Festival, where he was featured several times on the chamber music series and recorded with the orchestra.  He was most recently a member of the faculty at the the Eastern Music Festival, where he was Assistant Principal Second Violinist with the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra and a member of the Eastern Chamber Players.  Mr. Lohmann was also a member of the Florida Philharmonic and served as Principal Second Violinist with the Madison Symphony Orchestra. He was an active private teacher in Nebraska for over two decades.

While at the Eastern Music Festival, he taught violin, coached chamber music and orchestra sectionals and taught music theory. He was on the faculty of the Rocky Ridge Music Center for three summers, and has taught at Morningside College and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has presented master classes at Eastern, the University of Nebraska- Lincoln and William Jewell College.  He joined the faculty of the Lincoln Suzuki Institute in 2002, and has been on the faculty of the Santa Fe Suzuki Institute since 2003.  He is a former Music Director of the Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association. He has recently been a guest clinician at Suzuki workshops in Houston, Amarillo, and Las Cruces.

Cellist Claire Wylie Onuf comes to us from Corpus Christi, TX, where she taught in the public schools (Corpus Christi ISD), teaching elementary through high school, including a Suzuki program for 1st and 2nd grade violin at Chula Vista Academy of Fine Arts, an elementary magnet school; Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, teaching string methods and cello; Texas A&M University Kingsville, teaching string methods and Music History; maintained a private studio for cello students of all ages; and performed with the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra, the Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kingsville Symphony Orchestra, and the Victoria Symphony Orchestra (which she still performs with at this time). Mrs. Onuf earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Texas, studying cello with Phyllis Young, and a Master of Music degree from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, studying cello with Paul Tobias.  She began teaching Suzuki cello in 1981, just after the birth of her second child.  Mrs.Onuf taught Suzuki Cello as part of the after school program at Princeton Day School and at Westminster Conservatory, a division of Westminster Choir College, in Princeton, NJ.Mrs. Onuf has been teaching cello for more than 30 years.  She has moved to Santa Fe with her husband, a retired marine biologist, and they are enjoying the beautiful sunshine, lower humidity levels, great hiking trails, and the wonderfully artistic community.

Kristina Lambert is a registered Suzuki violin instructor for Suzuki violin levels 1-10.  Her teacher trainers have included Dr. Louise Scott, Kimberly Meier-Sims, Michele George, and Carrie Reuning-Hummel.  Kristina has a MM degree in Suzuki violin/viola pedagogy from Northern Arizona University, and a BM in violin performance and music education from the University of Memphis.  Kristina enjoys teaching violin and viola private lessons and group classes, as well as Suzuki in the Schools.  She is currently Coordinator of the Santa Fe Youth Symphony’s Mozart y Mariachi Suzuki violin program.  Kristina has served as principal second violin for the Flagstaff Symphony and concertmaster for the Northern Arizona University Orchestra.  Kristina’s principal teachers include Dr. Louise Scott and Dr. Soh-Hyun Park Altino.  In her spare time, Kristina enjoys hiking and gardening.

Lydia Madrick has over 40 years of piano teaching experience with all ages.  She has degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music where she majored in Piano Performance.  As a performer she has soloed, accompanied, and played chamber music.  She has been in Santa Fe for 16 years where she has been keyboard player for the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Fe Community Orchestra, accompanist for the Zia Singers, SF Symphony Chorus, Highlands University Concert Choir, and various other choruses and chamber groups.  She is Music Director of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe and is the accompanist for Temple Beth Shalom High Holidays Choir.  She has accompanied students at Santa Fe Talent Education for their Book Recitals and has been seen trying to learn the viola with SFTE.  In her spare time, she accompanies singers and various instrumentalists and rides her Paso Fino horses as often as she can.  She lives with her husband, Allen, two dogs, and 13 horses near Eldorado.  She is totally excited to be joining her friends at SFTE.

Dr. Sasha Garver teaches flute (both Suzuki and traditional) and voice. She teaches all levels, from age 4 through university-level. Sasha has just returned from two years as second flute/solo piccolo of the Macau Orchestra, SAR China. Sasha holds her Doctorate in Flute Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado where she studied with Alexa Still. She received her Masters degree in flute performance from The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She received two Bachelor of Music degrees in flute and voice from the University of Colorado.

Dr. Garver is a columnist for Flute Focus International Flute Magazine <http://www.flutefocus.com>  (NZ), has contributed to the American Suzuki Journal <http://suzukiassociation.org/author/g/sasha-garver> . Sasha has given lectures on topics ranging from pedagogy, Suzuki and performance practice at the Suzuki World Conference, the National Flute Convention and the Suzuki Association of the America’s International Conference.  She has certification in Suzuki Flute Books 1-8, Practicum, and Orff-Schulwerk level 1. Sasha has been faculty at Regis University, Colorado Christian University, Santa Fe Suzuki Institute, Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department, Peaks to Plains Suzuki Institute and the 2009 Suzuki World Conference in Melbourne, Australia.