Royal Conservatory of Music

Violin Unit 1
Nov 15, 2015Feb 21, 2016 in Toronto, ON, Canada
at Royal Conservatory of Music

What

Violin Unit 1

Instructor: Margot Jewell

Event Description

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Unit 1 Topics will include:
- A detailed study of the Suzuki repertoire
- The role of the group class in the Suzuki Method
- Research into Early Childhood Development
- Discussion of the Parent/Teacher/Student triangle
- Musical motivation—how to create it in the studio
- Use of supplementary materials
- How to set up a child on their instrument
- The basic bow and left hand techniques involved in Book one repertoire
- The development of technique and tone.
- Strategies for working with young children
- Group classes strategies.
- How to enable the parent to both work with their children and establish regular home practice.
- Discussion of how to establish and build a Suzuki studio.

Prerequisites:
- A high school diploma
- Active membership status in the Suzuki Association of the Americas
- Completion of ‘Every Child Can!’
- Approved videotaped audition through the SAA at the appropriate level for the course by the required deadline. Please see more details at: https://suzukiassociation.org/teachers/training/

Course Preparation:
- All participants in the Teacher Development Program are asked to prepare the repertoire to be studied to the point of fluent performance. Memorization is not required but is recommended.
- Participants should be conversant with the ideas presented in Dr. Suzuki’s book Nurtured by Love.

Course Requirements
- 100% in class attendance is required in all of the Unit courses.
- Teacher participants are required to observe lessons given by the trainer as well as those of other teachers. Participants will have the opportunity to do some observations by video; the trainer may provide videotapes of students having lessons in the trainers’ home studio.
- Repertoire will be performed in class as part of the study of each book.
- There will be some written course work.
- Participants will have the opportunity to have a short one-on-one consultation with the Teacher Trainer.

Prerequisite course:

Every Child Can!, or Filosofía

Audition: Violin Basic, or Violin Intermediate, or Violin Comprehensive, or Viola Basic, or Viola Intermediate, or Viola Comprehensive.

Deadline: All audition materials must be submitted by November 1 *

Signup closed.

Trainer Information

Margot Jewell

Margot Jewell has enjoyed working with young people and their families, first at the Hamilton Suzuki School where she taught violin and was also the director. In 1982 she founded Etobicoke Suzuki Music, where she presently is an artistic advisor. She received training from many inspiring Suzuki trainers, including a three-month study time in Matsumoto with Shinichi Suzuki in 1985. Margot is now a registered Suzuki violin Teacher Trainer with the SAA.

Margot was an active freelance musician and currently enjoys her work as a festival adjudicator across Canada and an Examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music . She enjoys teaching at Suzuki workshops and institutes as well as summer music camps. She is a past board member of the SAA and the Suzuki Association of Ontario .

When

Sunday, November 15, , 2015 to Sunday, February 21, , 2016

Where

Royal Conservatory of Music

273 Bloor St W
Toronto ON M5S 1W2
CANADA

Phone: 416-408-2825
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www.rcmusic.ca


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