Dominican Republic

Course organizer Angela Holguin

An Every Child Can course took place on June 3, 2008, at the National Conservatory of Music in Santo Domingo. This course was organized by Angela Holguin, in coordination with Marta Hernandez in Puerto Rico (only an hour away by plane!) and sponsored by the Gisela Foundation. Angela had written to me asking if I could possibly teach an additional course. She had filled the class quota of 30 and had almost as many on a waiting list! Unfortunately as I only had one day in the Dominican Republic, it was impossible to add another course to the schedule.

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This summer, Suzuki students from Puerto Rico performed an outreach mission to give the gift of music to children of the Dominican Republic. This was the dream of Gisela Garcia, a young Suzuki teacher in Puerto Rico who lost her battle with cancer before she could see her dreams for the children of this Caribbean nation come to fruition. In response, her family set up a non-profit corporation Fundación Gisela, which made this trip possible. A group of eleven Suzuki students’ ages 8-11 from the Conservatory of Puerto Rico volunteered to help introduce the Suzuki method to Santo Domingo. Leading…

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