All teachers are Suzuki Registered Teachers. We have many years of experience and other areas of specialties, such as Master’s Degrees or Doctorates in Music Performance, and Music Therapy.
Dr. Christine Webb Woodbury is the Executive Director of the Suzuki Collaborative, and she teaches both violin and viola with SCCPS. She also teaches with UC’s College Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department and at the Hyde Park School.
Originally from New Jersey, CW received a BA in music from Smith College. She has also earned a Masters and Doctorate in viola performance from UC’s College Conservatory of Music, studying with Dr. Catharine Carroll Lees and Masao Kawasaki.
CW has completed nine units of Violin training with the Suzuki Association of the Americas and six units of viola training, plus supplemental units. Her trainers have included William Preucil, Anne Montzka Smelser, Sarah Montzka, Geri Arnold, and Joanne Melvin.
CW has performed with numerous Cincinnati area ensembles, including the Butler Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Philharmonic, the Queen City Opera, and the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra.
CW embraces the Suzuki philosophy that every child can be a successful musician, and she strongly believes that every child deserves a quality musical education. She teaches with the goal of giving her students a love of music and tools to overcome any challenge in life.
Sarah teaches Suzuki violin at both Dater Montessori, North Avondale Montessori and Parker Woods Montessori schools. She is Suzuki trained through violin book three.
Sarah has a Master of Arts degree from Queens College (joint program with Mannes College of Music) New York, N.Y.
Sarah performs throughout the year with Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. She also plays with other musical ensembles in the Cincinnati area.
Laurie Fairlie Weil is the Suzuki flute teacher with the Suzuki Collaborative of Cincinnati Public Schools. She currently teaches at 7 SCCPS schools as well as at Walnut Hills High School and in her home private studio. She has completed and registered Suzuki flute teacher training for ECC, Books 1–8, books 9 and 11 (Mozart Concerti Overview) and additionally completed the course Teaching Tone and Expression throughout the Suzuki Repertoire.
Laurie performed for 10 years with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra and has been a member of various classical, celtic, folk/jazz ensembles in the Cincinnati area. She has recorded several CDs with various musicians, including an album with her band, King Penguin. Laurie’s teachers include Ken Andrews, Jack Wellbaum and the founder of the Suzuki Flute Method, Toshio Takahashi. She currently freelances in the Cincinnati area.
Laurie holds a degree in Music Therapy from Ohio University. She is a board certified music therapist who worked for 20 years in adolescent and child psychiatry. Her training includes workshops in art, movement, drama and experiential therapies. She is also a Musikgarten trained teacher.
Laurie and her husband Bruce are the Suzuki parents of two daughters.
Lacee Link is an accomplished cellist with a wide range of experience in teaching, performance and education. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, studying with Alan Rafferty. She holds Master’s degrees from Miami University, Boise State University and an Undergraduate degree from Kennesaw State University. Her primary instructors have been Dr. Sarah Kim, Dr. Brian Hodges and Charae Kreuger.
Lacee is a registered cello instructor through the Suzuki Association of the Americas. Her current teaching includes; Virginia Pearce Glick Young Musicians Cello Instructor, City Strings Cello Instructor, Princeton Middle School Private Cello Instructor, and Oxford Summer Music Institute Faculty.
Lacee has performed with numerous orchestras around the world. She performed as a substitute cellist in the Boise Philharmonic, LaGrange Symphony Orchestra and the Georgia Symphony Orchestra. She is currently a member of the Cincinnati Community Orchestra. She has also participated in many summer festivals including Ascent Music Dual Program, Cincinnati Young Artists, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival and Brevard Music Center.
Lacee has been the recipient of many awards and scholarships. In 2021, she won first prize in the Boise State Concerto-Aria competition and in 2019 was a finalist in the Kennesaw State University Concerto Competition. She has also been awarded the Boise State Graduate Quartet Scholarship, Miami University Teaching Assistantship, the John and Linda Cooke Quartet Scholarship at Kennesaw State University, merit scholarship for Brevard Music Center, merit scholarship for Ascent Dual Program. Most recently, she has been awarded full tuition and the Rinehart Mae A. Scholarship and Martha M. Crabtree Alumni Scholarship at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Lacee has received masterclass instruction from top cellists such as Zuill Bailey, Dr. Melissa Kraut, Myron Lutzke, Daniel Laufer, Toke Møldrup and chamber masterclass instruction from the Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet, Vega String Quartet and the Dali Quartet.
With a blend of teaching, performance, and academic achievements, Lacee Link continues to inspire her students and contribute to her community through her passion for music and teaching.