Anne Olson
Suzuki Piano, Suzuki Piano Coordinator
Anne Marie Olson has taught Suzuki piano at The Music Academy for many years. She has been teacher and clinician for the Kankakee Valley Piano Camp, the Green Mountain Suzuki Institute in Vermont, the Columbia Talent Education Association in Missouri, Blue Lake Suzuki Institute in Michigan, MacPhail Suzuki Institute in Minneapolis and the Suzuki program at northern Illinois University. She was invited to be a session present at the 2010 and 2012 Suzuki Conferences in Minneapolis. Her first piano teacher for many years was her father, Bruce Headlee. Her articles have been published in Keyboard Companion Magazine, Clavier Companion Magazine, The Suzuki Journal (a tribute to her father and other articles) and American Music Teacher Magazine. Anne shares a home with her husband, Charles Olson, and her granddaughter Isabelle, a Suzuki cellist. She happily spends every waking moment passionately pursuing her two favorite activities: accompanying her granddaughters and Music Academy students, and listening to her students play piano.