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"Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day or their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart."

 

Shinichi Suzuki

                                        
 
Lori Saidi  
                                                         

Lori Saidi is a native of Philadelphia, PA. Lori earned her BA from Manhattan School of Music and her MM from Temple University in Viola Performance. Her principal teachers were Evelyn Jacobs Luise, Rebecca Young, Burton Kaplan and Choong-Jin Chang. Lori is a freelance musician and sought after teacher in Philadelphia. Lori has played with Symphony in C, and frequently appears with the Delaware Symphony and has been a viola substitute with The Philadelphia Orchestra. She is an active teacher and has taught at Temple University Music Preparatory, Settlement Music School and The Abington Friends School as Orchestra Director. She currently maintains a private teaching studio in her home in Ardmore, PA. Lori is Suzuki certified and specializes in working with young beginners using Suzuki and traditional methods of instruction.

 

 

 

"Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world."

 

Ernest Boyer, President, Carnegie Foundation

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