Musique sans frontières
par Catherine Walker
Catherine Walker —Canton de Hatley QC
Samedi dernier, cinq de mes élèves de violoncelle ont eu l’occasion de jouer à la Haskell Library and Opera House, qui est littéralement située sur la frontière entre les villes de Newport, Vermont et Stanstead, Québec. En fait, une ligne de frontière noire au sol sépare en deux la salle dans laquelle nous avons joué! Music Without Borders est une série de concerts destinés à réunir des enfants des États-Unis et du Canada pour leur faire découvrir différents types de musique et différents instruments.
Mes élèves avaient entre 6 et 14 ans. Nous avons joué en solo et en groupe des pièces qui allaient des Variations jusqu’à la Gigue de la Première suite de Bach. Ce fut une merveilleuse façon pour eux de se préparer pour notre récital de Noël.
Catherine Walker received a Bachelor of Music degree (performance-cello) from McGill University in Montreal and continued her studies for a year in Geneva, Switzerland with cellist Guy Fallot. Upon her return to Canada in 1975, she started her training in Suzuki pedagogy with Yvonne Tait and has worked with most of the other North American teacher trainers over the years. She had a large private studio in Montreal, Quebec for close to thirty years and, in 2005, she moved to the Eastern Townships in southern Quebec where she has taken on the challenge of teaching the majority of her students in French. She is also an active clinician and has taught at numerous institutes, international conventions and workshops throughout Canada, the United States and in Spain, Japan and England.
Catherine has been a SAA sanctioned teacher trainer since 1983 and has taught long-term Apprenticeship courses as well as short-term training courses during the summer months.
Catherine was the founding President of the Suzuki teachers’ association in Montreal (Suzuki Musique Montéal) and served on the SAA cello committee from 1984-1988. In 1988, she went to Matsumoto, Japan and spent six months working with Dr. Suzuki. From 1996-1999, she served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA), and during that time was also the Canadian representative to the International Suzuki Association (ISA).
In 2008, Ms. Walker translated the ECC philosophy course into French. She has recently been asked to join the faculty at Bishop’s University as cello teacher.
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