Duet Partner with Avi Friedlander: Compressing Decades into Days

Join Ariel Haubner and Avi Friedlander for a discussion full of
inspiration and ideas that are sure to inspire your teaching. Mr
Friedlander shares the importance of finding mentors who are
willing to share their years of experience with young teachers.
They discuss the importance of writing things down, and creating
order and structure in your development as a teacher. Mr
Friedlander is a wealth of information, you'll definitely want to
tune into this episode!


Well known as a Suzuki cello workshop and institute clinician,
Avi Friedlander teaches a variety of methods from classical to
jazz and rock. Mr. Friedlander is the director of the Barston
Suzuki Center at the Music Institute of Chicago, a Suzuki teacher
trainer, teaches Suzuki Pedagogy faculty at Roosevelt
University/Music Institute of Chicago and teaches string pedagogy
at the University of North Florida. He holds Masters and
Bachelors degrees in cello performance from The University of
Michigan, and pursued his professional studies degree from The
Cleveland Institute of Music. Mr. Friedlander is the former
Assistant Principal cellist of the Atlanta Opera, former member
of The New World Symphony and former professor of Cello at Emory
University in Atlanta. His primary teachers have included Anthony
Elliott, Stephen Geber, Irene Sharp, Tanya Carey and David Premo
and he has also worked with Richard Aaron, Hans Jensen, Janos
Starker and Bernard Greenhouse. Mr. Friedlander has studied
improvisation methods with Eugene Friesen from the Berkley
College, Stephan Braun from Berlin and Tim Kliphuis from
Amsterdam. In addition to his own compositions, Mr. Friedlander
writes his own arrangements for solo cello of rock tunes from
Jimi Hendrix to Pearl Jam and is the author of his method books,
“chopping around” and “pizzing around”, which introduce
alternative styles to cellist.