Winifred Crock

Winifred Crock was the Director of Orchestras at Parkway Central High School for over twenty-five years and has maintained a private violin studio in suburban St. Louis, Missouri for far longer. During her tenure, the Parkway Central High Music Department was awarded GRAMMY Gold Signature school status as one of the top high school music departments in the country. Mrs. Crock has been named the Missouri ASTA Private Studio Teacher of the Year, the Missouri ASTA Secondary String Teacher of the Year, the St Louis Symphony Educator of the Year, the NFHA Outstanding Music Educator of the Midwest V, and the 2014 ASTA Elizabeth Green National School Educator. In demand as a teacher, clinician, lecturer, and conductor, Mrs. Crock has lectured at numerous music conferences and has been the featured string clinician at conferences in over 20 states and abroad. In addition to music degrees from SIU Edwardsville and Kent State University in Ohio, Mrs. Crock graduated from the Suzuki Talent Education Institute in Matsumoto, Japan under the tutelage of Shinichi Suzuki, and is a certified Kodály Method instructor. Mrs. Crock’s most recent publication is the Pattern Play for Strings Series: A Sequential Introduction to Reading Music, Forrester Press.