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Violinist Kerry Travers received a B.A. in Biological Sciences from California State University at Sacramento. Kerry is a trained Suzuki teacher registering over 200 hours of Suzuki violin training with the Suzuki Association of America from well known national teachers; she has maintained a private violin studio using the Suzuki Method for twenty years in three different communities in Utah and Washington and has taught at Suzuki Institutes and Festivals throughout Washington.

Kerry began studying Body Mapping in 1998 with Barbara Conable because of injury. During the journey to recovery she began including this information in her own teaching to help prevent injury and promote good body use in her students, Kerry realized the great importance of spreading this knowledge to the wider music community and in March 2007 completed her Andover Educator Certification. She has presented lectures on Body Mapping across the country including at the biennial 2006 Suzuki Association of the Americas Conference in Minneapolis, Boston University School of Music, Central Washington University and the Kairos Lyceum.

As a certified Andover Educator, Kerry is available to teach the course "What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body", with a particular emphasis on upper strings. She also teaches a shorter selective introduction to the course and she works individually with musicians in her studio.

Kerry performs throughout Washington with her trio Classic Pizzazz and is a regular member of the Wenatchee Valley Symphony, Lake Chelan Bach Fest Orchestra and the Eastern Sierra Festival Orchestra. She currently lives in Chelan, Washington with her husband Mike, where she a maintains a private studio.