The ARTISTS of the festival

Virginia Dixon During the academic year she teaches at Wheaton and Elmhurst Colleges the Music Institute of Chicago, and the Suzuki School of Elgin. A Board Member of the International Society of Bassist, she also edits their journal's Child's Play Column. As a member of the Suzuki Bass Committee she is collaborating on creating materials for the Suzuki Bass Method, now projected through ten volumes of material with three already published by Alfred Publishing. Most recently she has become a Teacher Trainer for the Suzuki Association of the Americas. She holds two performance degrees from Indiana University and has studied with Julius Levine, Murray Grodner, and Georg Hortnagel. Her performances have taken her throughout the United States as well as Europe and Japan. In addition to the World Bass Festival, Virginia Dixon has been invited to the Stage International Suzuki in St Michel de Chaillol in the French Alps this summer. She will also be teaching at American Suzuki summer institutes which this year include gatherings in Beaver Creek, CO, New Orleans, and Stevens Point, WI.