Joann Haasler, violin

JOANN HAASLER is a private violin teacher and free-lance violinist in the Milwaukee area. She has studied violin with Pamela Gearhart and Donald Weilerstein at the University of Buffalo, New York; Louise Behrend, in New York City, Yuri Beliavsky and Efim Boico (undergraduate) and Ralph Evans (graduate) at UW-Milwaukee. She has received training in chamber music with Donald Weilerstein and Martha Katz, members of the original Cleveland quartet, Mischa Schneider of the Budapest Quartet, Wolfgang Laufer and Jerry Horner of the Fine Arts Quartet and the acclaimed pianist, Judit Jaimes. Since receiving her Suzuki Teaching Certificate from the School for Strings in New York City (an intensive two year program) in 1982, she has maintained a private studio using that and other approaches to violin teaching while performing regularly with symphonic and chamber groups in the area. Along with her private teaching she has been a faculty member of, among others, Villa Maria Music Academy in Buffalo, New York, the Preparatory Music School of Brooklyn College, The School for Strings in New York City, Youth Makes Music Summer Camp (8 years) in Alabama, and has taught through the WCM music outreach program and the WCM Summer Music Camp in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She joined the IberoAmerica Ensemble on 2002.