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Profile of Suzuki programs in Latin America

The table below is a compilation of information gathered from questionnaires sent to numerous Latin American Suzuki programs in May, 1997. The response was overwhelming! I am very grateful to all who participated in this survey. The results give a clear picture of the Suzuki programs in Latin America and provide guidance to help the SAA better serve and represent the Suzuki education throughout Latin America.

The countries which participated in the survey were Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico.

The needs of these programs can be…

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On January 1st, violinist/violist Dee Martz, guitarist Alan Johnston and I met in the Chicago airport on the first leg of our journey to Peru and then Chile for the Latin American Suzuki Festivals. In Miami, we connected with pianist Caroline Fraser and then finally had the whole North American contingent together in Lima, early in the morning on January 2nd! Caroline was joined by two other pianists, Bruce Anderson and Doris Koppelman, and our violin team was augmented by Craig Timmerman in Chile. Tanya Carey also joined us in Chile, working with Peruvian and Chilean cellists, before going on…

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Plans for the South American Summer Suzuki Festivals are going well. The dates for the Festival in Lima, Peru, are January 3rd to January 10th and the Festival in Santiago, Chile, will take place from January 13th to 20th. These teachers are going to Peru: Marilyn O’Boyle and Dee Martz, violin; Caroline Fraser, Doris Koppelman and Bruce Anderson, piano; and Alan Johnston, guitar. Teachers from Lima and Santiago will also teach at that Festival. This group will be joined by several others for the Chilean Festival: Craig Timmerman, violin; Tanya Carey, cello; and June Warhoftig; flute. Both Festivals will offer…

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On January 1, 1995 I got up at 4:00 a.m. to catch a shuttle bus to the airport. The temperature was around 2 degrees below zero in Minneapolis. About twelve hours later I was standing, for the first time in my life, in the southern hemisphere in Lima, Peru, temperature around 75 degrees.

I had known for several months that I, along with two other teachers from the MacPhail Center for the Arts, would be going to South America for three weeks.. In Lima and Santiago, Chile, we would be working with teachers and students at two different summer Suzuki festivals…

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During the SAA Conference last June, Marilyn O’Boyle asked if I’d like to do workshops in Chile and Peru in January of 1995. I was excited at the prospect, thinking of places like Machu Picchu that I’d always wanted to see. Soon, Caroline Fraser called to make a final schedule, and then came wonderful letters of hospitality and enthusiasm for Suzuki Early Education from Roberta Centurion and Sara Benites, in Lima and Santiago. I couldn’t imagine, they said, the degree of excitement about my workshops being generated in Suzuki circles in both cities. So, before I even left North America,…

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A wonderful opportunity to experience the international aspect of Suzuki study in your local program or area association! As the SAA Liaison to Latin American Countries, I have talked to many SAA members who would like to be able to help the programs in Latin America. It has been challenging for everyone to find ways to do so, because of distance and communication difficulties.

In talking about this with several of you, a new idea was born which has many great possibilities for success. The idea is to have state, local and provincial Suzuki associations “adopt” a Latin American country and…

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Program Stats ASJ 21

January 3 through 10, 1993, Santiago College in Santiago, Chile will be the site of the first part of the 1993 South American Suzuki Festival. The event is sponsored and coordinated by the Suzuki Association of Chile, Concepcion Martorell, President, with the assistance of Marilyn O’Boyle, Director of Strings, and Caroline Blondet Fraser, Director of Piano. During the eight-day course, the following Teacher Training Units will be offered:

Violin—Unit lA, IB (with a preview of 2) and 3 (with a preview of 4) Marilyn O’Boyle.
Piano—Unit lA, IB (with a preview of 2) and 3 (with a preview…

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On September 26 and 27, 1992, I was in Austin, Texas, and I spent an hour with my former student, Manuel Bravo, listening to him play and talking about his new life here in Austin. I also used the opportunity to find out a few details about him that might be of interest to other people. Manuel started his violin lessons with me at the age of 7, in Lima, Peru, while I was there teaching for two years. When I left, he continued with Caroline Blondet-Fraser, whom I had trained in Suzuki Violin Pedagogy. (She is also an excellent…

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This report is a composite of information from Suzuki programs in Peru, Chile and Bolivia. Marilyn O’Boyle, South American Liaison for the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and Roberta Centurion provided the information from Chile and Peru. Martha Shackford contributed the data on Bolivia. Ten Latin American countries currently have members in SAA, and members anywhere in the western hemisphere are encouraged to send information and articles on Suzuki activities in their countries to the American Suzuki Journal for publication.

The Suzuki Association of Peru, founded in 1982 by Marilyn O’Boyle and Caroline Blondet-Fraser, is one of the oldest and…

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“‘Listo, ya!” “San, hai!” “Ready, go!” Spanish, Japanese or English-the result is the same for the Suzuki teacher-a signal to begin. I had the need to add some Spanish to my teaching vocabulary last January when I had the opportunity to teach in Suzuki Festivals in Lima, Peru, and Santiago, Chile. While the violin and piano programs had been started and nurtured by teacher trainers Marilyn O’Boyle and Caroline Blondet, there had been no cello teacher trainer in either country. Marilyn did as many violin teachers may do, out of necessity, and began some instruction in cello and some training…

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