Louise Behrend

Louise Mathilde Behrend (born October 3, 1916 in Washington, DC - † August 3, 2011 ) was an American violinist and music teacher.

Behrend had violin lessons from the age of ten. She traveled to Europe with her parents in the 1930s and studied in Salzburg, among other places. In 1939 she received a scholarship to the Juilliard School , where she became a violin student of Louis Persinger , who was also the teacher of Isaac Stern , Ruggiero Ricci and Yehudi Menuhin . After graduating, she became a violin and chamber music teacher at the Juilliard School Pre-College - she remained that way for more than sixty years.

In 1970 Behrend founded the School for Strings in Manhattan , where she taught children using the Suzuki method . She received the Annual Achievement Award from the InterSchool Orchestras of New York in 1989 and the Distinguished Service Award from the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) in 1994 . The Suzuki Association of the Americas presented her with their Distinguished Service Award in 1996 and the Creating Learning Community Award in 2002 . In 2003 Behrendt received the Betty Allen Award from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and in 2007 the Paul Rolland Lifetime Achievement Award from the New England Conservatory .

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• The Juilliard Journal - Obituary: Violin Educator Louise Behrend Dies at 94
• The Washington Post, August 16, 2011: Louise Behrend, concert violinist and Suzuki method teacher, dies at 94
• Suzuki Association of the Americas - In memoriam Louise Behrend
• Suzuki Association of the Americas - In memoriam Louise Behrend 1916-2011