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Edward Kreitman founded the Western Springs School of Talent Education and Naperville Suzuki School in 1980 and was Director until 2024. Currently, he is the Director of the Kreitman Suzuki Studio in Atlanta, the Director of the Atlanta Suzuki Institute, and teaches the Master Certificate Program in Suzuki Pedagogy at the University of Georgia in Athens.
Mr. Kreitman received his undergraduate degree from Western Illinois University where he studied Suzuki Pedagogy with Doris Preucil and Almita Vamos. In the summer of 1986 he traveled to Matsumoto, Japan to study with Dr. Suzuki at the Talent Education Research Institute and attended the annual summer school there.
Edward Kreitman founded the Western Springs School of Talent Education and Naperville Suzuki School in 1980 and was Director until 2024. Currently, he is the Director of the Kreitman Suzuki Studio in Atlanta, the Director of the Atlanta Suzuki Institute, and teaches the Master Certificate Program in Suzuki Pedagogy at the University of Georgia in Athens.
Kreitman Suzuki Studio
Mr. Kreitman currently directs the Kreitman Suzuki Studio where he teaches private and group lessons at the Druid Hills Presbyterian Church in the Virginia Highlands neighborhood in Atlanta. Private lesson openings are limited, but any student studying with a cooperating Suzuki teacher may join the group class program.
Group Class Schedule
Wednesday evenings, 6:00 - 6:45pm: Suzuki Book 4 & 5
Thursday evenings, 5:00pm - 5:45pm: Book 1.
5:45 - 6:30pm: Book 2. 6:30 - 7:00pm: Twinkle
Core Suzuki Curriculum
Every Child Can!
A 6-8 hour introductory course on the Suzuki philosophy and its application to education.
Violin/Viola Units 1 through 3 | Violin units 4 and 5
Courses on the teaching points of the core Suzuki repertoire.
Practicum (five days) and Strategies (two days)
SAA courses which help teachers to hone their teaching, assessment, and communication skills.
SAA Approved Enrichment Courses
Teaching with an Open Heart
The title of this course “Teaching with an Open Heart” is both literal as well as figurative. In this course we explore the ideas presented in the book in a series of exercises that help the teacher participants better understand how they use their energy in teaching, communicating, and performing.
Upcoming Courses
Books
A definitive resource for Suzuki Teachers and Parents, Teaching From the Balance Point draws on Suzuki Teacher and Teacher Trainer Edward Kreitman's decades of experience teaching and working with the pioneers of the Suzuki Method in America
"Edward Kreitman has taken the life-altering experience of open-heart surgery and subsequent learnings - medical, psychological, and spiritual - and integrated them into his life as a wholistic teacher. Teaching with an Open Heart will inform and inspire others who teach the violin. The truths he shares, however, go far beyond the instrument, mirroring the teachings of Dr. Suzuki, that we are 'educating for life through music'."
Kay Collier McLaughlin, PhD
Real Violin Lessons
RealViolinLessons.com was created to provide observation opportunities for teachers who have been studying the Suzuki Method. It is a subscription based library of videos which can be used to fulfill the observation requirements for SAA Teacher Training Courses.
