ELOISA RAFFEL
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & FOUNDER
Violin & Viola Suzuki Teacher
Eloisa has taught violin and viola in the Western New York region for over twenty years. Her education includes violin performance, orchestral training, Suzuki pedagogy, and small business leadership. She is fully certified by the Suzuki Association of the Americas as a teacher of all Suzuki levels, from early childhood to advanced. She has also provided training and development for teachers and music education businesses across the US and in several different countries. She has thought hundreds of students from their very first steps in music to college preparation. For the past five years, Eloisa has been a certified Large Scale Disaster Responder with the American Red Cross and has recently graduated from the Buffalo AKG Museum Docent Program. In her free time, Eloisa is crazy about pickleball and enjoys weekly hikes & orienteering, volunteering, and visiting art museums around the world. “No child is ever the same, which it’s a challenge I truly enjoy helping them to overcome. My primary goal is to educate a student as a whole not only in their instrument but with lifelong lessons in kindness, curiosity and leadership”
