Megan Bowker

Violin

Megan Bowker is an instructor of violin at Michigan State University's Community Music School and the Assistant Director of the Suzuki Program.  She completed her bachelor's degree in music performance at MSU in 2012, studying violin under Dr. Walter Verdehr and pedagogy under Dr. Judy Palac.  She has performed with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Midland Symphony Orchestra, and Peppermint Creek Theatre, and is a member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA) and the American String Teachers' Association (ASTA).

A Lansing native, she has been involved with CMS for over twenty years, first as a student, and now as a teacher.   Trained in the Suzuki program by Wendy Azrak, Mark Mutter, and Rebecca Sandrock, she offers private lessons in both Suzuki and traditional settings.  In addition, she teaches Suzuki group classes, at Grandparents' University, CMS Beginning Strings Camp, and fiddling at Blue Lake Suzuki Family Camp.  She loves fiddle music just as much as classical music, and enjoys exposing her students to the wide range of styles within the violin's repertoire.