This course prepares participants to teach the stage of violin study where students develop trills, ornamentation, and more advanced musical phrasing. Participants examine how to introduce these refinements so students gain expressive detail without disrupting the tone and control built in earlier units.

Participants learn to strengthen technical facility and tone production at a near-advanced level, along with the memory and concentration needed for more demanding musical forms. The course covers how to break down these advanced skills into manageable steps, and how to sequence instruction so students build polish alongside technical growth.

Participants also learn to foster independent musical decision-making as students prepare for performance-level playing, and how to guide interpretive choices at this more sophisticated stage. The course addresses common challenges as students take on greater technical and expressive demands, and how to troubleshoot them while keeping instruction encouraging and well-paced.

How to Enroll

You must be logged in to your SAA account and have Active/Professional Membership to join the course roster below. 

Scroll down to the bottom of this page to the enrollment box, click “+”, then click “get tickets”. Follow the prompts to enter your payment information to pay the nonrefundable deposit fee.  

You will receive an email confirmation after signing up with instructions on how to pay the balance of the tuition.  You can also verify your enrollment from your profile under Upcoming Courses.

If the enrollment box isn’t visible and you only see the waitlist option, it means you’re missing either an audition or a course prerequisite on your training profile. Please join the waitlist while you complete that class or wait for your audition results. You can check your training profile here to see what you are missing: https://suzukiassociation.org/person-profile/

If you have any trouble enrolling here, or if you wish to update your training profile with any missing courses, please write to [email protected]. 

All transactions are final and non-refundable.