Regina - Viola Lessons

Marina Adow

Lessons Coordinator

call/text: 306.569.3914
email: [email protected]

colin wrubleski bmus (Viola, Violin)

Online Lessons:

Teaching Day(s): Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday

Colin R. Wrubleski began violin lessons shortly before his 8th birthday. He has a Bachelor of Music (Performance major) degree, awarded "With Great Distinction", studying both violin and later viola with Dr. Howard Leyton-Brown.

Colin has worked in a combined position as a principal player for the North Bay Symphony Orchestra / Northern Sinfonia and violin teacher for the North Bay Symphony School.
Thereafter, he participated as a member of the Orchestral Training Program at the Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto (RCMT), studying with Orford String Quartet founder, Andrew Dawes. One-year positions followed in the orchestras of Windsor and Thunder Bay.

In 1993, Colin returned to the RCMT and concurrently the University of Toronto, taking up the viola full-time while continuing as a violin minor, and performing in a variety of conservatory and university ensembles. He worked as an upper-strings teacher for Sarasas Ektra School; duties there included private, group, and classroom, as well as ensemble and orchestra coaching.

In 2010, he became the Principal Violist of the TPO, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, concurrently while maintaining his teaching position for Sarasas Ektra, but in 2011 he instead taught for the MCGP (Music Campus for the General Public) program affiliated with the College of Music, Mahidol University. The MCGP students, mostly but not exclusively on violin, included students of diverse levels and abilities, from young beginners to adults to advanced students preparing for university. During his years in the TPO, the orchestra toured Japan, New Zealand, Laos (twice), and Myanmar, performing for noted dissident Aung Sung Suu Chi.

Other musical activities in his years in Bangkok included performances as a violist with the Lermontov String Quartet, and two full-length violin-and-viola duo recitals at the British Club in Bangkok with Australian virtuoso violinist Jonathon Glonek.

Colin teaches violin and viola at the Regina store. His rate is $27 per half hour.

natalia espinosa (Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Mandolin)

Online Lessons:

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

Natalia Espinosa has been playing violin over 30 years and has over 10 years of teaching experience and is a certified Royal Conservatory of Music violin teacher.

She started playing violin at the age of 3 at the prestigious academy by internationally renowned Suzuki teacher Yuriko Kuronuma - where she studied under current Chairman of the Japanese String Teacher's Association, Shigeru Tachiki. At age 7, Natalia began her studies at the National Conservatory of Mexico City. In 2006, Natalia moved to Canada and she completed her Bachelor of Music Performance and Music History the University of Regina – where she also took several courses in Music Theory, having an interest in Schenkerian theory/analysis. Natalia studied violin under former concertmaster of the RSO - Eduard Minevich and has been playing Cello over 7 years as a student of former principal cellist of the RSO, Cameron Lowe.

Natalia is an accomplished performer, having previously played with the University of Regina Symphony Orchestra, Regina's Community Orchestra, the National Conservatory Symphony Orchestra of Mexico City, Artime, The Ben Winoski Project, Poltava Mandolin Orchestra, and with other local musicians.

Currently, Natalia is working as a Luthier apprentice under Regina's violin maker Gary Robertson.

Natalia teaches violin, viola, cello, mandolin, and upright bass at the Regina store. Her rate is $28 per half-hour.

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