A brief profile on Richard Coff from the Web.

Here is a brief profile on Richard Coff from the Web site Violinist.com (http://www.violinist.com/directory/bio.cfm?member=rcoff):

"Mr. Coff is the founder/director of the America's Suzuki Music Academy and is a recognized expert in the Suzuki Method educational field. He was among the first teachers in the United States to receive training from Shinichi Suzuki, the creator of the Suzuki method. As a member of the faculty of Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department, he was one of the first in America to use Suzuki Violin Method to train children musicians, age 2 years old and up. 

 Shinichi Suzuki and Richard Coff in 1990.

Richard Coff has performed in major concert halls throughout the world, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Boston Symphony Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Moscow Philharmonic Hall, and Leningrad Phiharmonic.Mr. Coff is the founder and director of America's Suzuki Music Academy, a leading music school, providing Suzuki method training and located in South Florida. As one of the first teachers in the United States to receive teaher training from Shinichi Suzuki, the creator of the Suzuki method, he is a recognized expert in the Suzuki Method educational field. His teaching career began at Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music in the Conservatory's Preparatory Department. As the youngest teacher ever to be appointed as a faculty member in that division and the first to teach using the Suzuki Method, he specialized in training gifted children musicians".

Interesting the fact that here, as in his personal site at http://www.suzukimusicacademy.com/ or in other pages on violins/violinists (as at http://www.violinshopmiami.com/csDirectory/csDirectory.cgi?cid=468), there's no any references  to his past with the Third Ear Band...

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