String Teacher Workshop

Aimee Morrill Briant graduated with a BA degree in violin performance from the Hartt School of Music (Hartford, CT). She completed her long-term teacher training from the Suzuki pedagogy program at Hartt, where she was a student of Linda Fiore, Teri Einfeldt, and Brian Lewis, and has continued her training with short courses led by such teachers as Ronda Cole, Joanne Melvin, Carol Sykes, and Carrie Reuning-Hummel. 

A Maine native and “Suzuki kid” herself, Aimee began violin at age three with Clorinda Noyes.  She started her first violin studio in 1996 and has taught in Bangor, ME, East Hartford, CT, and at the Suzuki School of Newton in Newton, MA. She moved to northern New Jersey in 2006, where she started the Crescendo Suzuki Studio. 

She is a coordinator and teacher at workshops throughout the US and Mexico, past director of the New Jersey Suzuki Workshop, and faculty at the New England Suzuki Institute. She is an energetic chamber musician and freelances as an orchestral and chamber musician. 

A sought after clinician who is known for her ability to connect with children, Carlough strives to help students reach their full potential and to enjoy the process with them. She is on on the faculty of the New England Suzuki Institute and the New Jersey Suzuki Workshop, and has taught at numerous other workshops.

In addition to performance degrees from New England Conservatory and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was a winner of the School of Music Concerto Competition, Carlough has pursued long-term Suzuki teacher training with Teri Einfeldt as well as short courses with Ronda Cole, Edmund Sprunger, and Ed Kreitman among others. She also has received training from Dorothy Jones in Suzuki Early Childhood Education, a curriculum for newborns through three year olds.

Carlough has served as the director of the Massachusetts Suzuki Festival, and the President of the board of Suzuki:MA (the Massachusetts Chapter of the Suzuki Association of the Americas.) She has pursued a passionate interest in world music and has brought that music to share with her students.