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Judy Bossuat-Gallic has been the Master Teacher on the String Project at California State University, Sacramento from 2002-05 and 2007 to the present. She has also served as Suzuki Method and String Pedagogy Specialist at the University of the Pacific and the University of Oregon, Eugene, and taught public school in California. Previous to this she spent 16 years in Lyon, France pioneering the Suzuki Method in France and other countries in Europe.

Judy holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Crane School of Music, State University of New York, Potsdam. Her Master of Suzuki Pedagogy degree equivalent was earned studying with Shinichi Suzuki in Matsumoto, Japan. 

In addition to her current university work and private studio teaching, Bossuat-Gallic’s experience has been a lecturer, conductor, and teacher at over 375 International Conferences, Institutes and Workshops throughout the United States and the world. She was selected to lead over 3,000 students at the Suzuki World Conference final concerts in Turin, Italy (2006) and Matsumoto, Japan (2013).

Many of her former students have attended prominent conservatories and are pursuing successful professional careers soloing, as members of leading orchestras worldwide and teaching.  She is especially known for her work training music teachers both for public school positions and private studio teaching.

Bossuat-Gallic served for four years on the national board of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) and was on the board of the National String Project Consortium (NSPC) for over 10 years. She is an authorized Suzuki Method Teacher Trainer for the Suzuki Association of the Americas and the European Suzuki Association, and an honorary life member of the European Suzuki Association (ESA) and the “Association Française Pédagogie  Suzuki"  (AFPS). She served for 16 years on the boards of both ESA and FSMF (renamed AFPS).  She has served as president of the California chapter of the American String Teachers Association (CALASTA) and orchestra representative of California Music Educators Association - Bay Section.