Ottawa - Violin Lessons

Dylan Dumitru

Born and raised in the United States, Dylan began playing clarinet in 2003. Throughout high school, she performed in the community youth orchestra and All-District band.
In 2012, she left the States to pursue an undergraduate Music Degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, studying under Dr. Paul Bendzsa and Dr. Christine Carter.
While in school, she performed in the MUN Wind Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Jason Caslor, and the MUN Chamber Orchestra under Dr. Vernon Regher. She also performed with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra on the bass clarinet during their performance of Aaron Copland’s Rodeo.

Dylan hopes to bring an exciting and encouraging energy to the lesson centre!

Gabriela Ruiz (Cello, Violin, Viola, Fiddle)

Online Lessons:

Teaching Day(s): Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Gabriela has a Master’s Degree in Cello Performance from the University of Ottawa, where she studied cello with Paul Marleyn, as well as an Orchestral Certificate Diploma under David Currie. She has been active as a teacher and performer since 1997 and is also a Certified Suzuki Teacher. Gabriela focuses much of her performing in the classical genre but has also participated in other events such as rock concerts, Video Games Live and recently in the orchestra for “La Machine”. She teaches both Suzuki and RCM methods for violin, viola and cello.

Gabriela's teaching rate per half hour private lesson at Long & McQuade Ottawa $31.

Reiko Lokker (Violin)

Online Lessons:

Teaching Day(s): Monday, Friday

Reiko is a graduate of Carleton University with a Master of Arts in Religion and Public Life. She has been playing violin since the age of five and has performed with several ensembles and orchestras across Kitchener-Waterloo, Ottawa, and Tokyo. She is a member of 234 Strings, an Ottawa-based trio. She had her NAC debut in 2015 with the Carleton Orchestra in collaboration with the Beijing Conservatory of Music.

Reiko's teaching rate per half hour private lesson at Long & McQuade Ottawa $27.

Tanya Karamanos (Violin, Viola, Piano)

Online Lessons:

Teaching Day(s): Tuesday

STARTING LESSONS MARCH 31

Tanya Karamanos holds a masters of music in violin performance from the University of Akron, Ohio, a graduate degree in viola performance from Université de Sherbrooke, Québec and a Masters in musicology from York University, Toronto where she specialized on Sofia Gubaidulina’s violin concerti. Her current doctoral studies focus on traditional Romanian violin music. She also has also completed a series of doctoral classes in music education from Liberty University, Virginia.
Tanya performed her solo debut at Carnegie Hall in 2016 and performs regularly locally and abroad. She has experience as a soloist, a chamber musician and as an orchestral musician. A published writer and an active public speaker in the field of musical academia, Miss Karamanos has an extensive background in music education, musicology and ethnomusicology. She has been published in academic research journals such as The Canadian Music Educator and Series Musicologica Balcanica and has lectured abroad at various conferences and Universities such as the National University of Music in Bucharest. Beyond the realm of classical music, she also has extensive experience playing and teaching Eastern European and klezmer music in Canada and overseas.

Tanya teaches both in English and in French and has twenty years of teaching experience both in person and online. She has completed numerous levels of the Suzuki training program and has experience with children as young as 3 years old. She also has had much success teaching students in more competitive programs such as in high schools with music concentrations, pre-college music programs, masterclasses, audition preparation and she has been invited on violin juries. She is passionate about teaching and sharing her love for the violin and viola with students of all ages, levels, abilities, interests and with students with disabilities. She also teaches piano now for two decades and has numerous years of rigorous piano training and successful piano competitions in her background. Her goal is to enrich the musical lives of her students by fostering creativity, understanding, respect and independence.

Tanya's rate per half hour private lesson at Long & McQuade Ottawa is $30 (English, French).