Abigail Peterson has been playing the violin for twenty years, studying Suzuki violin with Paula Anderson in New Ulm, Minnesota and Terry Bjorklund in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. She continued her violin study with Mark Bjork at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her orchestral experience includes playing with the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra from 2000-2006 and playing in both the Universit
y Symphony and Campus String Orchestras at the University of Minnesota. She also has a large amount of small ensemble experience playing with the Pit Orchestra at Wisconsin Lutheran High School, the Lutheran Chorale of Milwaukee, and chamber ensembles in high school and college. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Muskego, Wisconsin. In addition to studying at the University of Minnesota, she continues to pursue violin teaching education. In 2011, she attended the Violin Teacher Workshop at the String Academy of Wisconsin. She has taken short-term teacher training at the Chicago Suzuki Institute with Michele George and Joanne Melvin. She is trained through Book 3 and looks forward to taking training for all of the books. Peterson currently teaches private Suzuki lessons from her home in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
