Suzuki in My Life
By Nicholas Rocha, age 12 I’d like to highlight a true milestone in my life. At first, I thought: “Music? Piano? What for?” But I soon realized how wrong I was. When I was nine years old in the fourth grade, I joined Klavier Educação Musical–Suzuki Center of São Bernardo do Campo (Brazil). At first,…
Student Corner: Music Through the Eyes of Suzuki Students
By Kylie Hayter (age 13) and Ellie Yan (age 14) We would not be where we are today without the Suzuki Method. Our names are Ellie Yan and Kylie Hayter and we are students at the Western Kentucky University String Academy. We are thirteen and fourteen years old, and both of us studied the violin…
Music from Our Cultural Heritage
By Nancy Modell My discontent and sadness over the ugly rhetoric and the lack of inclusiveness in U.S. society led me to protest musically in November 2020. The result was a student music program to combat this: Music from Our Cultural Heritage. Unfortunately, I sense we’ve returned to those contentious times, leading me to share…



