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Rebecca Lile Paluzzi is Associate Professor of Flute and director of the Suzuki Studies Program at East Tennessee State University. She is a registered Teacher-Trainer with the Suzuki Association of the Americas and the European Suzuki Association and has taught courses for Suzuki teachers and students in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Japan, Korea, and New Zealand. She also serves as SAA Flute Representative to the International Suzuki Association. Mrs. Paluzzi hold a Bachelor of Music degree in Multiple Woodwind Performance, a Master of Music degree in Flute Performance, and a Diploma in Suzuki Pedagogy from the Talent Education Institute School of Music in Matsumoto, Japan, where she was the first foreign graduate from the Suzuki Flute Pedagogy program. She has been a featured presenter at the Australian Flute Convention in Canberra as well as at National Flute Association Conventions in Phoenix, Orlando, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. She is a member of the NFA Pedagogy Committee. She has also presented at state, and regional MENC conventions and served on the Pedagogy Saturday panel at the MTNA National Conference in Los Angeles in March 1999. Her private students and chamber ensembles have been state winners in the MTNA Solo and Chamber competitions.
An active performer, Mrs. Paluzzi is principal flutist in the Johnson City Symphony Orchestra, a founding member of the Shelbridge Chamber Players, and Meadowlark Chamber Trio. She has presented solo recitals in Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Utah, Michigan, Wisconsin, Australia, and Brazil. She was featured as a soloist with the Johnson City Symphony Orchestra during the 1999-2000 season having made previous solo appearances in 1983 and 1988.