Voice

The 9th International Suzuki Voice Workshop, “Songs for Sharing,” will be held in Vantaa, Finland, June 28 through July 2, 2010.

For more information, see the Suzuki Voice Website: http://www.suzukivoice.com/english/News.html

Aber Suzuki Center student, soprano Mikaela Schneider, 15, of Greendale, WI, a student of Suzuki voice teacher Mary Hofer, sang Schubert’s Ave Maria with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra at their holiday concert this past weekend. Guest conductor Marvin Hamlisch (also conductor of the National Symphony Pops Orchestra), was so impressed with her performance that he asked her on the spot to sing four concerts at the Kennedy Center this coming weekend, December 12th and 13th! Hopefully during rehearsal she will get to visit with ASC alumni Joel Fuller, violinist, who is a member of the National Symphony Orchestra.

Last year, Mikaela sang the soprano solo with the MSO in Bernstein’s Chitchester Psalms.

Congratulations to Mikaela and Mary Hofer!

The SAA would like to welcome three new Teacher Trainers:

Mary Hofer
Voice
Stevens Point, WI

Joseph Pecoraro
Guitar
Winston-Salem, NC

James Hutchins
Violin
Silver Spring, MD

These Trainer Candidates completed the final steps in the approval process following the ISA Teacher Trainer Conference in Boston last month. We look forward to their service in this new and important capacity.

Estamos muy felices porque el Séptimo Encuentro Internacional de Voz Suzuki “Canciones para compartir” se realizó en Argentina del 2 al 8 de Enero de 2009.

Ha sido maravilloso compartir la música, el canto y el amor como parte de un mismo espíritu; el del Método Suzuki. Los participantes fueron profesores capacitadores, profesores en entrenamiento y alumnos de Finlandia, Autralia, Argentina, Perú, México, Chile y Paraguay. Las profesoras capacitadoras fueron la Dra. Päivi Kukkamäki, que es la fundadora de este Programa (Finlandia) y Katrina Pezzimenti (Australia).

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We are very happy because the Seventh Suzuki Voice International Workshop “Songs for sharing” was held in Argentina, January 2-8, 2009. It was wonderful to share the music, the singing and the love in one same Spirit based in the Suzuki approach. Participants were teacher trainers, teachers-in-training and students from Finland, Australia, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Chile and Paraguay. The teacher trainers were Dr. Päivi Kukkamäki, the founder of the Suzuki Voice Program…

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The 7th International Suzuki Voice Workshop will be held in Latin America for the first time, in La Plata Argentina, January 2-8, 2009. The workshop will include Voice Book 1 teacher training with Päivi Kukkamäki and Katrina Pezzimenti. The teacher audition deadline is November 30, 2008. For more information see the Suzuki Voice website.

Interested in Suzuki Voice teaching? The first officially sanctioned SAA Teacher Training in Voice is taking place at the American Suzuki Institute in Stevens Point, WI, July 31-August 12, 2005. The instructor is ESA-approved Suzuki Voice Trainer, Paiivi Kukkamaki from Finland. For information, please go to the Institute website: http://www.uwsp.edu/cofac/suzuki/Institute/