Judy Kamperman

Judy Kamperman has been a teacher of piano and theory for 30 years in her Bend studio. She is active in the Central Oregon OMTA district and served as President 2014-2016. Along with teaching piano in her studio she is presently the pianist at her church in Bend.

Previously she taught piano in Pennsylvania and was active in the Greater Pittsburgh Suzuki School of Music. She adopted the philosophy ‘Every Child Can!’ with the belief that musical ability can be developed in all children. She studied Suzuki piano teaching at Suzuki Piano Institutes at Ithaca College (New York), Stevens Point College (Wisconsin) and Forest Grove College (Oregon).

She attended Slippery Rock State Teacher’s College in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, where she studied piano and pipe organ. In Oregon her teachers of Piano Pedagogy and Theory included Nellie Tholen of Lewis & Clark College, and Patti Petersen NCTM.

Dr. Shinichi Suzuki said: “The Law of Ability will develop ‘according to fostered education.”