Doris Preucil
The following information is from https://prabook.com/web/doris_bogen.preucil/630453, which I accessed February 11, 2025.
Doris Bogen Preucil was born on December 10, 1932 in Milwaukee to Walter Leopold and Adele Anne (Jarvis) Bogen. She married William Warren Preucil on September 4, 1954, and their children are William, Junior, Walter, Anne, and Jeanne.
She earned a Bachelor of Music with distinction from Eastman School Music, Rochester, New York, 1954; a Master of Music from University of Iowa, 1968. She also studied with Shinichi Suzuki at his Talent Education Institute in Japan in 1982.
Her career highlights include being a violinist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, 1952—1954 and the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, 1954—1956. She also worked as a freelance violinist and teacher in Iowa City, 1956—1972 and an assistant professor at Western Illinois University, Macomb, 1972—1976.
She was the founder, director, and master teacher at Preucil School of Music in Iowa City, 1975—1997, and a director emerita and teacher since 1997. She also served at the Suzuki Professorial chair at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, 1986 and as an honorary board manager of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester since 2005.
Doris Bogen Preucil has been listed as a noteworthy music educator by Marquis Who's Who.
She served as a Trustee National Guild Community Schools Arts, 1988—1991; on the board of directors of the Amateur Chamber Music Foundation since 1998; and as an Elder, deacon 1st Presbyterian Church in Iowa City since 1964.
She is a member of the International Suzuki Association (founding board member 1983-1995); Suzuki Association of America (certified teacher, trainer since 1980, president 1982-1984, Distinguished Service award 1992); and Rotary (member music commission since 1989).
The following is from https://www.esm.rochester.edu/alumni/files/DorisBogenPreucil.htm, which I accessed February 11, 2025.
Violinist and music educator Doris Preucil was a student of Millard Taylor at Eastman, graduating in 1954. She began her professional career in the National Symphony Orchestra and, after a move to Iowa, became one of the American pioneers in the Suzuki movement, establishing a Suzuki violin program in 1963.
In 1974, Doris bought a building in Iowa City and transformed it into The Preucil School, which has become an important training ground for pre-college string players. She involved herself not only in teaching, but also in orchestral conducting and arranging, as well as the administration of the School. When the original building was outgrown, Doris set out to raise funds for a "north campus," and a new building was completed in the past decade.
"In the early years of the Suzuki Method," Doris Preucil has written, "many professional musicians were critical, not believing that 'nurturing by love' could develop well-trained musicians. Nothing could more easily refute that than the students themselves." The Preucil School serves 500 students aged three through adult, some from over 300 miles away. The students regularly win competitions and scholarships to major conservatories and summer programs, and many graduates perform on the concert stage, in American and European orchestras, and become teachers. Doris's great joy and dedication to teaching are also shown in the master classes she has given throughout the world, and her travels to Europe with the Preucil School Youth Orchestra.
Doris Preucil has been one of Eastman's most loyal and devoted alumni, sending many students to the School over the years - including two of her children. Her husband is the violist William Preucil (BM 52, MM 56), and she is mother to Bill (violin), Wally (cello), Anne (harp), and Jeanne (violin), all talented players. Wally and Jeanne hold Eastman degrees; Bill was first violinist in the Cleveland Quartet and Professor of Violin at Eastman, and is now concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra.
For her remarkable efforts in music education and her devotion to the Eastman School of Music, we proudly honor Doris Bogen Preucil with an Alumni Achievement Award.
Rochester, New York
October 16, 2004
Another helpful website: https://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/agents/people/16364
Doris Bogen Preucil was born on December 10, 1932 in Milwaukee to Walter Leopold and Adele Anne (Jarvis) Bogen. She married William Warren Preucil on September 4, 1954, and their children are William, Junior, Walter, Anne, and Jeanne.
She earned a Bachelor of Music with distinction from Eastman School Music, Rochester, New York, 1954; a Master of Music from University of Iowa, 1968. She also studied with Shinichi Suzuki at his Talent Education Institute in Japan in 1982.
Her career highlights include being a violinist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, 1952—1954 and the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, 1954—1956. She also worked as a freelance violinist and teacher in Iowa City, 1956—1972 and an assistant professor at Western Illinois University, Macomb, 1972—1976.
She was the founder, director, and master teacher at Preucil School of Music in Iowa City, 1975—1997, and a director emerita and teacher since 1997. She also served at the Suzuki Professorial chair at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, 1986 and as an honorary board manager of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester since 2005.
Doris Bogen Preucil has been listed as a noteworthy music educator by Marquis Who's Who.
She served as a Trustee National Guild Community Schools Arts, 1988—1991; on the board of directors of the Amateur Chamber Music Foundation since 1998; and as an Elder, deacon 1st Presbyterian Church in Iowa City since 1964.
She is a member of the International Suzuki Association (founding board member 1983-1995); Suzuki Association of America (certified teacher, trainer since 1980, president 1982-1984, Distinguished Service award 1992); and Rotary (member music commission since 1989).
The following is from https://www.esm.rochester.edu/alumni/files/DorisBogenPreucil.htm, which I accessed February 11, 2025.
Violinist and music educator Doris Preucil was a student of Millard Taylor at Eastman, graduating in 1954. She began her professional career in the National Symphony Orchestra and, after a move to Iowa, became one of the American pioneers in the Suzuki movement, establishing a Suzuki violin program in 1963.
In 1974, Doris bought a building in Iowa City and transformed it into The Preucil School, which has become an important training ground for pre-college string players. She involved herself not only in teaching, but also in orchestral conducting and arranging, as well as the administration of the School. When the original building was outgrown, Doris set out to raise funds for a "north campus," and a new building was completed in the past decade.
"In the early years of the Suzuki Method," Doris Preucil has written, "many professional musicians were critical, not believing that 'nurturing by love' could develop well-trained musicians. Nothing could more easily refute that than the students themselves." The Preucil School serves 500 students aged three through adult, some from over 300 miles away. The students regularly win competitions and scholarships to major conservatories and summer programs, and many graduates perform on the concert stage, in American and European orchestras, and become teachers. Doris's great joy and dedication to teaching are also shown in the master classes she has given throughout the world, and her travels to Europe with the Preucil School Youth Orchestra.
Doris Preucil has been one of Eastman's most loyal and devoted alumni, sending many students to the School over the years - including two of her children. Her husband is the violist William Preucil (BM 52, MM 56), and she is mother to Bill (violin), Wally (cello), Anne (harp), and Jeanne (violin), all talented players. Wally and Jeanne hold Eastman degrees; Bill was first violinist in the Cleveland Quartet and Professor of Violin at Eastman, and is now concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra.
For her remarkable efforts in music education and her devotion to the Eastman School of Music, we proudly honor Doris Bogen Preucil with an Alumni Achievement Award.
Rochester, New York
October 16, 2004
Another helpful website: https://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/agents/people/16364
Biographical feature on Doris Preucil by the Iowa City Public Library