Orleans - Viola Lessons

Renee Dahn (Violin, Viola, Fiddle, Piano)

Online Lessons:

Teaching Day(s): Monday, Tuesday, Sunday

Renee Dahn started playing the violin at the age of five and piano at the age of nine. Originally from Prince Edward Island, Renee grew up surrounded by the rich musical culture of the Maritimes. She holds a Bachelor of Music from Wilfrid Laurier University, where she studied violin and viola.
Renee believes in cultivating interest and excitement about music through positive reinforcement and personally tailored lessons, which includes helping her students establish and accomplish goals, and creating a healthy relationship with the instrument.
She has performed throughout the Maritimes and southern Ontario, including with the Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra and as a soloist at the Indian River Festival’s Youth Showcase concert. In addition to teaching, Renee is an active performer in the Ottawa area in chamber groups and as a session musician.

Renee's rate per half hour private lesson at Long & McQuade Orleans is $26. (English)

Suzie Luton (Violin, Viola)

Online Lessons:

Teaching Day(s): Monday, Sunday

Suzie Luton began playing at the age of 4, first beginning on cello, then the violin. She attended Canterbury High School, where she was a part of the strings program. There she was given the opportunity to try the viola.
She attended the University of Ottawa, completing an Honours Bachelor of Arts with Specialization in Music where she was able to take performance classes, music education classes, and participate in the ETAP program with Orkidstra.
In addition to music, Suzie is also a registered teacher with the Royal Academy of Dance and has been teaching ballet for six years. Suzie is passionate about teaching and is grateful for the opportunity to pass on her passion for music to the next generation of students.

Suzie’s rate per half hour private lesson at Long & McQuade Orleans is $25. (English)

Tanya Karamanos (Piano, Viola, Violin)

Online Lessons:

Teaching Day(s): Thursday, Friday

Tanya Karamanos holds a masters of music in violin performance from the University of Akron, Ohio, a graduate degree in viola performance from Université de Sherbrooke, Québec and a Masters in musicology from York University, Toronto where she specialized on Sofia Gubaidulina’s violin concerti. Her current doctoral studies focus on traditional Romanian violin music. She also has also completed a series of doctoral classes in music education from Liberty University, Virginia.
Tanya performed her solo debut at Carnegie Hall in 2016 and performs regularly locally and abroad. She has experience as a soloist, a chamber musician and as an orchestral musician. A published writer and an active public speaker in the field of musical academia, Miss Karamanos has an extensive background in music education, musicology and ethnomusicology. She has been published in academic research journals such as The Canadian Music Educator and Series Musicologica Balcanica and has lectured abroad at various conferences and Universities such as the National University of Music in Bucharest. Beyond the realm of classical music, she also has extensive experience playing and teaching Eastern European and klezmer music in Canada and overseas.

Tanya teaches both in English and in French and has twenty years of teaching experience both in person and online. She has completed numerous levels of the Suzuki training program and has experience with children as young as 3 years old. She also has had much success teaching students in more competitive programs such as in high schools with music concentrations, pre-college music programs, masterclasses, audition preparation and she has been invited on violin juries. She is passionate about teaching and sharing her love for the violin and viola with students of all ages, levels, abilities, interests and with students with disabilities. She also teaches piano now for two decades and has numerous years of rigorous piano training and successful piano competitions in her background. Her goal is to enrich the musical lives of her students by fostering creativity, understanding, respect and independence.

Tanya's rate per half hour private lesson at Long & McQuade Orleans is $28.