Christine Reichenbach

Violin

MMEd (VanderCook College of Music), BME (Wheaton College)

Christy has a big heart for teaching students and has enjoyed working with them in a variety of settings. For eleven years, she taught elementary and middle school orchestra before focusing on her family and expanding her private teaching with the Suzuki method. Christy has maintained a private violin and piano studio for over twenty years and served on the faculty at Wheaton College’s Community School of the Arts. It was there that she taught in the CODA program, serving families who wouldn’t otherwise have afforded high quality private and group lessons. As a performer, Christy was a member of the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra for fifteen years.

Christy serves in her church alongside younger musicians while playing for special services. Previously, she oversaw and accompanied the Children's Choir at Wellspring Alliance Church for eleven years, mentoring college students in their leadership of this children’s choir.

Christy studied violin with Lee Joiner, Susan Young-Carlson, and Cynthia Andrews Dumm. Her Suzuki teacher training was under the tutelage of Rebecca Sandrok, Michele Higa George, and Mark Mutter.

Currently, Christy and her husband, Brian, live near Chattanooga, Tennessee with their four children. As a Suzuki parent, she has experienced firsthand the joys, challenges, and triumphs of musical development and family music-making.