Virginia Dixon teaches at the Suzuki School of Elgin and Music Institute of Chicago as well as in her home studio and at Wheaton and Elmhurst Colleges. This coming summer she will teach and train teachers at Suzuki institutes in Beaver Creek, CO, Edmonton, AB, and Stevens Point, WI. A long time Board Member of the International Society of Bassists, she still edits their journal's Child's Play Column. In 2005 she received the ISB Special Achievement Award as their Young Bassist Ambassador. A member of the Suzuki Bass Committee, she is creating materials for the Suzuki Bass Method and is one of two Teacher Trainers actively training teachers from the United States and abroad. Most recently she taught teachers from Argentina, Mexico, and Peru at the XXIII Festival Internacional Suzuki De Musica in Lima, Peru. She holds two performance degrees from Indiana University and has studied with Julius Levine, Murray Grodner, and Georg Hortnagel. Her performances have taken her throughout the United States as well as to Europe and Japan as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra player.