AGF Suzuki Teachers

DOUGLAS ROGERS is on the guitar faculty of the Levine School of Music in Washington, DC, and holds a Masters of Music in Guitar Performance and Pedagogy along with a Bachelor of Music in Guitar Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. In 2005, Doug will be one of the outstanding faculty members of the 2005 Alexandria Guitar Festival who is also participating in the Teacher Training program. He has studied with Julian Gray, Ray Chester, Tim Olbryk, and he has participated in masterclasses with renowned instructors such as Manuel Barrueco and Carlo Domeniconi. As an activist for charity, Doug returns to his hometown of Newport News, Virginia each year to give an annual Benefit Guitar Recital at Denbigh Presbyterian Church to raise funds for a missionary in Haiti. Doug Rogers is an active supporter in the performance of new music, and has premiered several new chamber music compositions, two of which were prizewinners in the Peabody Conservatory's Prix d'Été.

ANDREA CANNON first fell in love with the guitar watching performers on TV. In high school she learned Chuck Berry Licks and figured out "Stair Way to Heaven" from the record, one of her first great acheivements dear to her. Nobody had told her that girls we not supposed to play electric guitar, and she couldn't get enough of it. She wanted to be the best she could be and realized that going to school would help her acheive that goal. Andrea attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston where she majored in Applied Performance Studies. Her love for performing is equally reflected by her love for teaching. She is rewarded by sharing and passing her knowledge and in turn seeing the musical growth reflected in her students.

TIM ALLISON holds a Bachelor of Music from Virginia Commonwealth University. While attending VCU, he was the first recipient of the Jesus Silva Merit Scholarship. He has studied guitar with John Patykula and Jeff Meyerriecks and has performed in master classes for Dusan Bogdanovic, David Russell, Larry Snitzler, and Jesus Silva. Mr. Allison has attended many Suzuki teacher-training workshops where he studied with Frank Longay and Bill Kossler and is registered with the Suzuki Association of the Americas for taking book 1 through 6 workshops and an overview for books 2 through 8. Working with the Suzuki International Guitar Committee and Warner Brothers he helped to prepare the upper level books of the Suzuki Guitar School Series for publication. He currently teaches using the philosophy of Shinichi Suzuki at Swift Creek Academy of Performing Arts in Richmond, Virginia and plans on attending the Ann Arbor Suzuki Guitar and Flute Institute for the book 7 teacher-training workshop this summer.