Susan Kempter is an American

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

teacher and prominent

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teacher trainer who specializes in applying interdisciplinary research to music

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

. She is an active promoter of teaching students to play musical instruments with both physical as well as musical demands in mind, so that they can play their instruments without the pain and repetitive stress injuries which are common in the profession. She was influenced by the teaching of Paul Rolland and John Kendall. She is the director of a violin performing group, Mad About Music, in Albuquerque, NM, which exemplifies her teaching methods. She was the founding director of String Pedagogy at the

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, and is well as a frequent speaker and workshop specialist for the American String Teachers Association, Music Teachers National Association, and the Suzuki Association of the Americas. She is the author of several articles and books dealing with violin pedagogy, including ''How Muscles Learn: Teaching the Violin with the Body in Mind.''

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