# Louise Behrend

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{{Short description|American violinist (1916–2011)}}
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'''Louise Behrend''' (October 3, 1916 – August 3, 2011) was an American violinist and academic. She was dedicated to the [Suzuki method](/source/Suzuki_method) of teaching, and founded the Suzuki-based School for Strings.

== Life ==
Louise Behrend was born in 1916 in [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.); her father was a doctor and amateur pianist, and her mother was a mathematics teacher.<ref name=juilliard1>[http://journal.juilliard.edu/journal/louise-behrend-1916-2011 "Louise Behrend 1916-2011"] ''The Juilliad Journal'', September 2011. Retrieved September 17, 2020.</ref><ref name=juilliard2>[http://journal.juilliard.edu/journal/louise-behrend-art-teaching "Louise Behrend: The Art of Teaching"] ''The Juilliad Journal'', May–August 2010. Retrieved September 18, 2020.</ref> She studied at the [Juilliard School](/source/Juilliard_School) with [Louis Persinger](/source/Louis_Persinger), and on gaining a graduate diploma in 1943 she was invited to join the school's Pre-College Violin Music and Chamber Music faculties.<ref name=juilliard1 /><ref name=strad>[https://www.thestrad.com/us-violinist-and-suzuki-teacher-louise-behrend-dies/5740.article "US violinist and Suzuki teacher Louise Behrend dies"] ''[The Strad](/source/The_Strad)'', August 14, 2011. Retrieved September 17, 2020.</ref>

[Shinichi Suzuki](/source/Shinichi_Suzuki), creator of the [Suzuki method](/source/Suzuki_method) of violin teaching, visited the Juilliard School in 1964, with some of his students, and subsequently Behrend went to Japan, spending two weeks in [Matsumoto](/source/Matsumoto%2C_Nagano) to see Suzuki's summer classes.<ref name=juilliard2 /><ref name=strad /> In 1970 she started a Suzuki course in Manhattan. This expanded and in 1973, when it had more than 50 students, it was named The School for Strings, with Behrend as director;<ref name=juilliard1 /><ref name=strad /> it still exists today.<ref>[https://schoolforstrings.org/  School for Strings] Retrieved September 18, 2020.</ref>

She was editor of the ''American Suzuki Journal'' from 1984 to 1988, and wrote ''The Suzuki Approach'' (1988). She was on the faculties of the [Henry Street Music School Settlement](/source/Henry_Street_Settlement), [New York University](/source/New_York_University) and the [Manhattan School of Music](/source/Manhattan_School_of_Music).<ref name=juilliard1 /><ref name=strad />

In 1996 the Suzuki Association of the Americas gave her a Distinguished Service Award; in 2003 she received the [Betty Allen](/source/Betty_Allen) Award from the [Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center](/source/Chamber_Music_Society_of_Lincoln_Center); in 2007 she received the [Paul Rolland](/source/Paul_Rolland) Lifetime Achievement Award from the [New England Conservatory of Music](/source/New_England_Conservatory_of_Music).
<ref name=school>[https://schoolforstrings.org/about-us/our-founder/ "Our Founder"] School for Strings. Retrieved September 17, 2020.</ref>

Behrend remained on the faculty of the Juilliard School until retirement in 2009. She died in 2011, aged 94.<ref name=juilliard1 />

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