Meet the Co-Founders of the Alyla Suzuki Music Center

Lynn McCall -

Lynn is the Director and co-Founder of the Alyla Suzuki Center in Woodbridge, CT.     She has brought the pilot program for Suzuki Early Childhood Education to New Haven CT.  Trainees from the U.S., Europe and Canada have observed her classes. She is a presenter and coordinator for SECE for the 2010 Suzuki Association of the Americas Conference team.

She received her Suzuki Early Childhood training from internationally renowned Suzuki Early Childhood and Piano Teacher Trainer Dorothy Jones at the World Teacher Training Centre for Suzuki Early Childhood Education in London, Ontario, Canada. .  She served on the faculty of the Hartt Suzuki Institute where she assisted Dorothy Jones in teacher training.  She has completed masters classes  with Dr. John Fierabend at the University of Hartford,  in “First Steps in Music” and participated in a video series with John Feirebend distrubuted for release in China. She has been a clinician for workshops in Canada. For many years she  taught the "Musical Journey" program at the Bethwood Suzuki School in New Haven CT where she served as Director of Early Childhood programs and taught Suzuki piano.

She is an experienced piano teacher who specializes in early learners and has maintained an active private studio since 1995. Lynn draws on her extensive experience as an independent producer, Children’s theatre director and designer. Her creative enthusiasm leads her into many areas in the arts and brings a special energy to her students. Her goal is to instill a love of music and learning in children at the earliest ages, to create a firm foundation for all later learning. 

Laura Speno -

Laura Speno is the co-founder of the Alyla Suzuki Center.  She received her B.M. and M.M. from the University of Hawaii. She had extensive Suzuki training from Hiroko Primrose and attained short-term training at summer institutes from the Hartt School of Music, Hartford, CT, The American Suzuki Institute at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and the Intermountain Suzuki String Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah.  Mrs. Speno has taught Suzuki Violin for 15 years and was the String Director at the Bethwood Suzuki School at which time she brought her students to perform at many venues including Carnegie Hall in New York City.  In addition to teaching Suzuki Violin, Laura has taught Early Childhood classes for many years.  She has now completed three levels of Suzuki Early Childhood Education in London, Ontario with Dorothy Jones.