Music Lessons at Classic Violins

We are pleased to offer violin, viola and cello lessons, right here in our shop. Lessons can be scheduled for 30, 45, or 60 minutes. Students of all ages and levels of experience are welcome. For more information or to schedule lessons, please contact the teacher directly via the contact method listed under their profile.

Teaching Faculty at Classic Violins

Daria Horodyskyj

Violin - Mundelein

Phone: (773) 809-9412

Daria completed her musical studies at Lviv Conservatory in Ukraine, graduating in 1976 with Master’s Degree in performance and pedagogy. For seventeen years she was a violinist in the Lviv Opera orchestra rising to the rank of assistant concert master. When Daria moved to Chicago, she joined the Northwest Chicago Symphony and the NCSO String Quartet. In addition, she has been string instructor at the Chicago School of Violin Making since 1994. Daria is an active performing violinist in the Northern Illinois/Indiana area and a teacher of developing young string players. She works with student ages 7 through adult. 

Iordanka Kissiova

Violin, Viola, Cello - Mundelein

Phone: (847) 370-0037

Iordanka Kissiova is a Grammy nominated violinist and active orchestral, chamber and solo musician. A native from Bulgaria, she studied at the National Academy of Music - Sofia with Prof. G. Bliznev and George Monov (performing artist who comes from the finest Russian tradition in violin playing). Before moving to the United States in 1993, Iordanka was a member of Bulgaria’s National Music Theater Orchestra and performed in Italy, Spain, France and Germany with the Lady's Chamber Orchestra, Sofia. She was also a string instructor and co-founder of New Youth Philharmonic and was teaching violin and viola at Little Music School in Sofia, Bulgaria. In the United States, Iordanka has played regularly in regional orchestras throughout the Midwest. Among them are Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra of Lake Forest, Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Classical Symphony Orchestra, Northwest Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Master Singers, St. John Cantius Orchestra, Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra, Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Folks Operetta, and New Budapest Orpheum Society, are among the few.

Iordanka appeared as soloist with NSO, Chicago Businessmen Orchestra and Chicago Virtuosi Orchestra.

Iordanka has been an active violin, viola, and beginning cello teacher in the Chicago area since 1996 She has been passing her passion and love for music to her students using traditional, Suzuki and other appropriate and innovative  methods for every  individual student. She teaches students of any age and level  from 3-year olds to adult.

Kirsten Stromberg

Violin - Mundelein

Email: [email protected]

Kirsten Stromberg teaches students of all ages and levels, combining traditional methods, advanced repertoire, etudes, and Suzuki methods.

Her students have received scholarships to youth camps, performing arts schools, and prestigious universities.

Donna Curry

Violin - Racine

Donna Curry is dedicated to instructing and developing young musicians in Violin and Viola, K - adults using both the Suzuki and Traditional methodologies through 'The Curry Method'. The Method enables her  to build a consistent musical foundation that is co-created, interactive, and highly individualized. It enables students to know the joy of making music and inculcates a life long love of music from “Twinkle" all the way to the complexity of a major Concerto.

Donna is an accomplished violinist and teacher is as well a certified, registered Teacher Trainer of the Suzuki Method. She has had the privilege of being an invited faculty member across the country as well as the International Convention in Banff, Alberta Canada.

Donna holds degrees from the University of Michigan and  DePaul University.

She has also completed advanced studies at Northwestern University, Roosevelt University and Wayne State University as well as  additional private violin study with the renowned teachers, Elizabeth A.H. Green (author, teacher, publisher), Charles Avsharian, (CEO, SHAR Products), Gustave Rosseels (past Chair, University of Michigan) Dr. Milton Goldberg (acclaimed teacher, Winnetka), David Moll (CSO), Prof, Aida Guertovici, (mentee to Eugene Ysaye).

Proudly, Donna’s current students hold leading chairs in 12 area orchestras from the North Shore to Milwaukee and suburbs West.

Naza Bekturova

Cello - Mundelein

Phone: (847) 899-9390

Naza began studying cello at the age of 8 in a highly competitive music school in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She continued with her cello training and graduated from the Kyrgyzstan National Conservatory under Zenona Slenzak- Begaliev. Naza has studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Maria Tchaikovskaya.

Naza has been running a successful private music studio since 2015, and enjoys teaching children and adults from beginner to advanced. She also plays professionally and is a member of two orchestras: the Highland Park Strings and Skokie Symphony Orchestra.

In 2016, Naza was a featured a performer in Sounds of Kyrgyzstan, a gala concert held in Nichols Hall in Evanston, IL. In April 2018, she was selected by Highland Park Orchestra to play a special benefit concert with the world-renowned cellist Amit Peled.

Naza teaches cello at the Mundelein location.