Phala Tracy

Phala Tracy teaches Suzuki harp and music theory at Studio Fidicina in Minneapolis, MN and she is adjunct professor of harp at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN. She teaches at summer Suzuki Institutes across the country and she is a registered Suzuki harp teacher trainer. Phala plays in a band with Minneapolis singer/songwriter Matt Wilson and she is an active arranger, composer, improviser and freelance musician in the Twin Cities. She holds a BM from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She has a whimsical collection of songs about animals Critter Songs and an ever-growing curriculum of Music Theory in Song and Rhyme.
theorysongs.com, studiofidicina.com

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Authenticity in Teaching: Guiding students through the entire human experience of learning

by Phala Tracy

Our students look to us as models for how to play the instrument they are in the process of learning. Teachers demonstrate a student’s working piece played at a professional level with attention to beautiful tone, graceful phrasing, and technical… Read more ▶

Learning, Students, Teaching
ASJ 50.2, page 32