Violin lessons, Master classes, group lessons, String ensembles

Luisiana offers tailored individual lessons, String ensemble class and Master class. With more than 10 years experience teaching children and performing, Luisiana is dedicated to help you achieve your violin, ensemble and performance goals.
Luisiana combines skills and methods in Kodaly, Suzuki and AMEB to move students through desired outcomes. Performance and theory are also taught in masterclasses and online platforms.

Born in Germany to a musical family, Luisiana moved to Australia before learning the violin at 3 and a half. Tutored by Suzuki pedagogue Haruo
Gotto Luisiana was invited to perform solo before the governer of Queensland at the age of 9. Whilst receiving violin studies with the
acclaimed string educator Elizabeth Morgan AM, she was a featured artist on ABC 2NR radio and appeared as soloist at the Sydney Opera
House with the SSO Quartet and also performed soloist with orchestra at QPAC. Luisiana featured as soloist with her twin sister in the St George Bank television Commercial (1999) and at the Tropicana Festival and was given a music scholarship to attend Somerville House. Luisiana
performed solo for the National String Teachers Convention QLD, followed by a performance at Parliament House as a "Young Music Achiever". Luisiana also received a music tuition bursary by the St George Foundation, a QLD Young Conservatorium music Scholarship and the Marjory Walters Music Scholarship. Directed by Loretta Fin, Luisiana performed with Somerville Strings and the Senior String Consort who won first place in the Premier Grade Strings at the Australian Academy Festival of Music and had the prestigious honour of being presented with the TOAN (The Orchestras Of Australia Network) award for Best National School Orchestra (2004).
Luisiana has experience as a Violin Tutor in Brisbane and Sydney and has held a role of Music Coordinator at North West Christian School in Tasmania for four and a half years. She has 10 years experience teaching the Kodaly and Orff method and has completed both Kodaly Music level 1 & 2 from Queensland University and KIEMA and Orff certificate 1. Luisiana was chosen to be a tutor at the acclaimed Nova Muse festival, where she conducted one of the
three orchestras leading them to a unforgettable final performance. She performs regularly and has collaborated with various professional
artists including Sue Collins, Patricia Pollet, Peter Morrison and Sarah Scheermeijer.
Luisiana holds a current WWCC number and also is a fully registered Primary Teacher in NSW.
Qualifications:
A-Mus A Diploma
Grade 6 Theory
BA Ed Primary Specialising in Music
Kodaly Level 2
Orff Level 1