kirsten marshall

Kirsten Marshall is a registered teacher trainer with the Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA). She deeply believes every child can learn to play music if placed in the right environment.  She enjoys sharing both humor and knowledge about working with children to other professional violin teachers.   

Ms. Marshall is teaching the complete cycle of violin books online for the University of Louisville KY.  Additional teacher training includes Ithaca, Hartt and Louisville Suzuki summer institutes. Ms. Marshall is violin faculty and director of the orchestral program at Ithaca (NY) Talent Education, a world-renowned Suzuki school.  Her training in violin performance and Suzuki pedagogy (B.M., M.M.) was at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Michele Higa George.  Ms. Marshall’s influential violin teachers include David Updegraff, James Stern and Anna Tringas.  She also holds a B.S. in music education from Case Western Reserve University.  In 2022-2023, Ms. Marshall served as Interim Music Director of the Cornell Chamber Orchestra. 

Ms. Marshall is a core member of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra (CCO) in Ithaca, New York. A passion for conducting led her and fellow CCO violinist Sarah Cummings to establish the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Youth Orchestra (ccoYo) in the fall of 2017, a 53-member, full symphonic youth orchestra. Conducting the ccoYo, teaching children and teaching teachers are all part of seeking what is possible in our children’s future, and bringing Dr. Suzuki’s vision of every child can to life.