Annette Lee has been on the faculty of the MacPhail Center for Music since 1995. Ms. Lee is a frequent performer in the Twin Cities as an active collaborator with colleagues and students.  As a Teacher Trainer, she has taught many workshops in the U.S. and Canada. Most recently, Ms. Lee  was invited to teach at the International Teacher Trainers Convention in Matsumoto, Japan as the only representative from North America. In addition to her teaching students at MacPhail, she has created a Fellowship Program at MacPhail, training new Suzuki Piano Teachers in Minneapolis.

Ms. Lee began her teaching career in the Chicago area at DePaul University Community Music Program and the Music Institute of Chicago.  She was a Fellowship student at the University of Michigan and holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Piano Performance.  Additional training includes the Aspen Music Festival, Blossom Music Festival and the Chicago Suzuki Institute.

Amanda Schubert studied Suzuki violin with her father, Lacy McLarry, from age three through college, receiving a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance from Oklahoma City University.  She received a Master of Music degree in violin performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied with Norman Paulu, and, as a member of the graduate string quartet, was coached extensively by the Pro Arte String Quartet.  Mrs. Schubert holds a Teaching Certificate from the Talent Education Research Institute in Matsumoto, Japan, where she studied with Shinichi Suzuki, and is an SAA Teacher Trainer.  Mrs. Schubert was a member of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra for eighteen seasons and served on the violin faculty of the Brevard Music Festival in North Carolina from 1996 to 2011.  Currently, she is principal second violin of the Temple Symphony Orchestra, violist of the Temple Symphony String Quartet, free lances extensively in the Central Texas area, and is the director of the Suzuki Academy of Waco.  She and her husband are the Suzuki parents of two daughters who are aspiring violinists.

Samuel Sidhom is a dedicated and enthusiastic teacher with an M.M. in Sacred Music from the Cincinnati Christian Seminary. He is a Suzuki piano and Suzuki Recorder trained with the Suzuki Association of the Americas.

Mr. Sidhom is an active member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas, the American Recorder Society, and Early Music America.

Mary Halverson Waldo received a BA in Music from the College of St Scholastica, and a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory, in Performance of Early Music (Recorder and Traverso). A member of Waldo Baroque and Friends, she has made guest appearances with North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Choirs (Columbia, SC), Broad River Renaissance Band, the Bach Society of Minnesota, Chatham Baroque, Pittsburgh Opera, Fayerwether Friends, and Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston.

Ms. Waldo was a faculty member at MacPhail Center for Music (Minneapolis), and the Saint Paul Conservatory (MN), where she introduced recorder and flute into the Suzuki programs. She is a regular faculty member at music institutes and festivals throughout the United States, Canada, Latin America, and England. Her teenage recorder students have won honors and awards in competitions sponsored by Presidential Scholars in the Arts, and Piffaro! She is a registered Recorder Teacher Trainer for the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and the European Suzuki Association.

Formerly a Music Director for the Twin Cities Recorder Guild (the MN chapter of the American Recorder Society), Ms. Waldo has been a writer for the American Recorder magazine and the American Suzuki Journal, and has served on the boards of the American Recorder Society (ARS) and the American Recorder Teachers’ Association.