Nina Westbrook

Suzuki Violin & Cello Educator

Nina Westbrook has a BA degree in Music Education from Mansfield University of Mansfield, PA. She has done advanced work at Eastman School of Music, the University of Iowa and the University of South Dakota. Nina is a freelance cellist in the Twin Cities.

Nina received Suzuki Violin Training at the Stevens Point, WI Suzuki Institute, Suzuki Violin Training with Mark Bjork at MacPhail and with Bette Johnson in Minneapolis. She received Suzuki Cello training from Tanya Carey in Chicago, IL. Nina teaches Suzuki Cello books one through nine, and Violin books one through four through advanced levels.

Nina has taught violin, cello, and led Suzuki ensembles at CSMA since 2018.

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Ann Bur

Suzuki Violin & Viola Educator

Ann Bur is a graduate of Lawrence University's Conservatory of Music, and has been teaching for over 20 years. Two years were spent teaching in the Maywood, IL orchestra program. In the remaining years, Ann has used the Suzuki method in various community education music programs throughout the Twin Cities. Ann acts as principal violist of the Kenwood Symphony, The Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company and MNKINO orchestras. Sight Reading and performing chamber music is one of her favorite hobbies. Ann really enjoys sharing her performance insights with her students. She takes each student's temperament and needs into account, and encourages her students to analyze their own practice and performance skills.

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James Peterson

Double Bass, Piano, Guitar, & Bass Guitar Educator

James Peterson is a multi-instrumentalist and educator hailing from the Washington DC metro area.  When not performing, he teaches piano, guitar, bass guitar and double bass students.  In addition to private instruction, James specializes in group classes and ensemble coaching for all ages K-12.

James holds a bachelor’s degree in performance from the Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatory as well as two graduate degrees from the Indiana University Jacob School of Music.  James’s time at Peabody was spent studying a breadth of specialties including double bass, conducting and music theory.  At Indiana University, James chose to focus in on orchestral performance for his four years of graduate work. 
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From Carnegie Hall to basement jazz bars, James’s performing career has taken him all across the country.  James performs with many symphony orchestras along the east coast  and in the Midwest, and loves to fill the time between with cover bands, musical pits and bluegrass bands.

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Andrea Wallick

Cello, Piano, & Violin Educator

Andrea is pursuing a major in cello performance at the University of Minnesota under Tanya Remenikova and has a passion for Musicology and Theory and Math. She has been an award winner in several major solo music competitions, and in 2018, her chamber music trio won first place in the junior division of the SPCO Youth Chamber Music Competition, and the Mantova International Music competition which earned them a trip to Italy to play in the Mantova Music Festival sponsored by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.   Andrea has  many requests to play cello for weddings and to accompany high school choirs.  She has been teaching and tutoring students in math and music for several years. 

For Andrea, the love for music began in Kindermusik classes as a very young child, and she went on to become proficient in playing multiple instruments including cello, piano, violin, guitar (classical, acoustic, electric, and bass). During her musical journey, she has also played the drums and saxophone.