Carol Waldvogel

Photo by Michiko Yurko

2008 Conference attendees. Front row: Dee Martz, and Joanne Martin. Back row: Delaine Fedson, Mary Kay Waddington, and Michiko Yurko.

Plan now to attend the 2012 SAA 15th Biennial Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota!

The conference will be held May 25-28, 2012, and will feature valuable sessions for teachers, teacher trainers, and parents—not to mention Suzuki Youth Orchestras of the Americas (SYOA) and other exciting events for your students!

Read on for many more reasons to save the dates in 2012.

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The International Ensembles Committee of Carol Waldvogel and May Ing kicked into high gear on Sunday, May 30, overseeing the needs of Cellisimo, Allegro!!! and Noah Krauss.

The first performance was the Piano Concerto Competition winner, Noah Krauss. Noah was superbly accompanied by the Hartt Faculty and Alumni Orchestra, under the baton of Kirsten Marshall of Ithaca, New York. Noah is a student of Marina Obukovsky.

The spectacular performances by Cellissimo and Allegro!!!, students from the Western Springs Talent Education program, took place later in the evening and…

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Stan Smith with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki

The Creating Learning Community awards are designed, in part, to celebrate significant contributions by individuals. This particular award recognizes a person who has worked for the development and expansion of the Suzuki learning community. Stan Smith is an ideal example of someone who is the catalyst for development of many learning communities: his own family (three of his children are now Suzuki teachers themselves), the many lives of the families he has touched by teaching at numerous workshops and summer institutes, and the past, present and future families of Stan’s program, Aurora Suzuki Violins.

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