Karen Tuttle

Karen Tuttle (March 28, 1920 – December 16, 2010) was an American violist and pedagogue, well known for her teaching system that she called coordination. There are several aspects to coordination including stance, balancing the instrument, physical releases, body awareness and integration, musical impulses, and emotional responses to the music. She began performing on violin at the age of sixteen before switching to viola in 1941. Tuttle actively performed and taught at a number of institutions until her retirement in 2005.