Aimee is an energetic chamber musician, previously a member of the Liao Trio and Adriatic Piano Trio in Boston, the Houghton Quartet in Houghton, NY, and the Madore Trio in Bangor. At age 16, she began her first professional orchestra experience as a member of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. In Massachusetts, she held the position of principle second violin in the Rivers Symphony Orchestra and performed with the Lexington Symphony and the New Philharmonia. She freelanced in Boston as both a classical violinist and a fiddler for English folk dances for five years before moving to New Jersey. She is currently the concertmaster for the Essex County Summer Players and on the board of the New Sussex Symphony Orchestra, as well as a freelance orchestral and chamber musician throughout the Garden State.
Upon moving to Randolph, NJ in 2006, Aimee opened her Suzuki violin studio. She currently teaches in Randolph, Hackettstown, the Westminster Conservatory in Princeton, and at area Montessori Schools.
Aimee Morrill Briant
Aimee Morrill Briant graduated with a BA degree in violin performance summa cum laude from the Hartt School of Music (Hartford, CT). She completed her long-term teacher training from the Suzuki pedagogy program at Hartt, where she was a student of Linda Fiore, Teri Einfeldt, and Brian Lewis. She has taken additional Suzuki teacher training with Ronda Cole, Michele George, and Carrie Reuning.
A “Suzuki kid” herself, Aimee began studying Suzuki violin at the age of three with Clorinda Noyes and Kathy Wood. She established her first violin teaching studio in Bangor, Maine in 1996, where she maintained a studio of students ranging in ages 2 ½ to adult and had a successful violin program at three area Montessori schools. She continued an active studio in East Hartford, Connecticut until she took position on the faculty of the Suzuki School of Newton in Newton, Massachusetts in 2001. In the Boston area, she maintained a studio of over forty students while teaching group classes, chamber music, and Suzuki Prep (music, movement, and instrument exploration).
In summers, Aimee has taught chamber music, music theory, ear training, masterclasses, group classes, and performance technique at the Musical Mornings summer music camp (The Rivers School in Weston, MA), the Suzuki School of Newton, and Westminster Conservatory (Princeton, NJ). She acted as coordinator for the Portland String Quartet Workshop at Colby College 2002-2006. Most recently, she was a clinician at the New England Suzuki Institute (Standish, Maine, 2008). During the school year, Aimee served as assistant director of the 2005 and 2006 Massachusetts Suzuki Festivals. The weekend-long festival consisted of a faculty of 17 clinicians from all over the US and Canada and approximately 250 participants from Massachusetts and neighboring New England states.
