Ms Merran Poplar

Australian by birth and at heart, Merran has spent most of her adult life in Europe and now lives in South America. She graduated from the Constructive Teaching Centre in London in the spring of 1994, having completed part of her training with Joan and Alex Murray in Illinois, USA, and with Arie Jan Hoorweg in Amsterdam, Holland. Merran was based in the Netherlands for 10 years teaching privately, at the music conservatorium in Utrecht, at the Dutch String Quartet Academy and assisting Arie Jan Hoorweg on his teacher training course (ATON).  In 2006 she moved to Buenos Aires to open a STAT teacher training course (ETABA), that school is now directed by Violeta Winograd and Merran, together with Roberto Reveilleau, has opened a new training course (EsTAR) in Rio De Janeiro Brazil where she now resides.