“It has been really meaningful to provide personalized, one-on-one instruction to the students in our program and to provide some much-needed classroom support to Mr. To as well. In less than two months, the students are already showing growth in their playing and in their commitment to practicing and improving. I am beginning to develop positive relationships with my students, and we really enjoy seeing each other from week to week!”
2023/2024 SCORE Principal Teaching Artists
Violinist Emma Burge is a third generation Suzuki violinist, whose grandparents Sandy and Joan Reuning were pivotal in bringing the Suzuki method to the US. Emma recently moved to Seattle from Boston, where she got a degree from the New England Conservatory and was an active freelancer/teacher. Because of her intense performance education, Emma learned a lot about balance and how to use music as a positive force. She cares about fostering a healthy and beautiful relationship with music through teaching young musicians the importance of self confidence, understanding and navigating emotions, and using the body in a relaxed and natural way. Emma cares about developing children as people as well as musicians.
Emma Burge is an avid supporter of contemporary and new music, seeking to combine her classical training with improvisation. Emma is a founder of the new music ensemble Alinéa, formed at the New England Conservatory. She has premiered thirty new chamber works in the past two years, including Arturo O’Farril’s Tiny Little Walls. She also recently recorded with artist Heather Maloney on her newest album, Soil in the Sky. In Boston, Emma was a member of the Phoenix Chamber Orchestra, Fermata, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Coda Ensemble. She also teaches through From the Staff, providing lessons to students in need.
Rose Hashimoto is a violist from Seattle, Washington. Rose has performed with ensembles including A Far Cry, Shattered Glass Ensemble, the Aeolus, Argus, Thalia, Momenta, and Ulysses Quartets. She played with the Experiential Orchestra on the Grammy-winning recording of Ethel Smyth’s The Prison and on A Far Cry’s Grammy-nominated album, Visions and Variations.
Rose earned performance degrees from The Juilliard School and Mannes College of Music in New York.
Rose is a dedicated viola and violin teacher with a background in Suzuki pedagogy. She currently serves on the faculty of Suzuki Institute of Seattle and she has also taught for Lucy Moses School, the Preparatory Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College, Kaleidoscope School of Music, Harmony Program, and Seattle Youth Symphony.
“I have really been enjoying my time in the SCORE program - the students I am teaching have a real love and interest in music, and having one-on-one time with them is a game changer. To get individual attention and encouragement seems really important for them and they are building confidence through playing music. Seeing their growth these first couple of months is really exciting and important.”
Check out two short clips of cellist, Jalayne Mitchell performing for the Washington Middle School Orchestra class
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