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The Sound of Community: SAA 16th Conference Keynote
August 15, 2014 / Conference, Conference 2014, Keynote, Latin America, Gabriel Pliego
you remember the story of a boy who played the violin very well, but when Dr. Suzuki listened to him, he…gave the boy the following homework: “Do not play the violin for a week. This week you must practice doing things…for other people. You have to learn this besides playing violin. . . If your heart is ready to work for others, then…At the beginning of this project there were very few violin… Read more
Bravo
November 1, 1992 / Latin America, Laurie Scott
from Peru, international student health insurance, a host family, a violin, instrument insurance, and an airplane ticket. Manuel Bravo arrived in…of the school year Manuel was named “Best of Class” violin… Read more
The Suzuki Method in South America
November 1, 1992 / Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Latin America, Peru, Suzuki Method, Joseph McSpadden, Marilyn O'Boyle
corporation with 35 teachers and 1,132 students in piano, violin, cello, guitar and recorder. Most are from Lima, but a…O’Boyle in 1982, is now in Austin, Texas studying violin with Suzuki teachers Laurie Scott and Bill Dick. (See pages…with 134 parents and teachers and 415 students in piano, violin, viola, cello, guitar and recorder. This Association has had a…big benefactor for the last three years by sponsoring Chilean violin teachers to study in Matsumoto for one year each with… Read more
Interview: Laurel Trainor, SAA Honorary Board Member
August 15, 2014 / Board, Flute, Honorary Board, Interview, Research, David Gerry
you become involved with Suzuki? My children both studied Suzuki (violin and viola), so I became interested in the philosophy behind… Read more
A Thousand Hearts and Hands
August 15, 2014 / Conference 2014, Latin America, Latin American Ensemble 2014, Latin American Suzuki Ensemble, Sponsors, Suzuki Americas 2014, Susan Baer
was Don Robertson, president and founder of Robertson & Sons Violin Shop. The Robertson Family has a long history of supporting… Read more
Margery Aber's Continuing Legacy: An Aber Suzuki Center Experience, from a First Timer's Point of View
July 1, 2014 / Studios and Programs, Teacher Training, Voice, Iain Macpherson
was also arranged that I observe some of the great violin and piano teaching from the many other teachers of the…week, I had observed more than forty lessons in voice, violin and piano; had discussed vocal pedagogy and its application to… Read more
AuntRhody.org—Free Parent Education Resource for Suzuki Programs
April 22, 2014 / Minijournal, Parent, Parent Education, Suzuki, Susan Sommerville
spite of my best efforts, he did not understand the violin or how to help the girls, so any notes he…want to practice.” “My child stalls.” “My child threw his violin on the ground!” The Suzuki Music Columbus (SMC) staff found…be the author. In the 1930s, Dr. Suzuki organized his Violin School books and included the folk song Go Tell Aunt… Read more
Did you know...?: Suzuki Method Recordings and Digital Downloads
November 14, 2013 / Blog, Did You Know, Repertoire, Suzuki Method, Suzuki Recordings, Libby Felts
2, Soprano Recorder School 1-2, Viola School 1-8, Violin 1-8, Solos for Young Cellists 1-2, Solos for…Young Violists 1-2, and Solos for Young Violin…A minor, D 821 (F. Schubert/D. Preucil). Duets for Violins The popular book Duets for Violins (0093S) has been updated…the revisions and corrections that have been made to the Violin Volumes 1, 2 and 3. The updated volume carries a… Read more
Suzuki E-News #63: Conference Clinicians, 2014 Institutes, Book Sale, Upcoming Events
October 11, 2013 / Conference
or at other events during the weekend. William Preucil, Jr., Violin Yukari Tate, Violin (TERI, Japan) Mark Jackobs, Viola Richard Aaron…Still not sure if you want to come? Read what violin teacher Ian Salmon experienced at his first SAA conference in…Suzuki books for students & parents, including the brand new Violin Lessons!! storybook—perfect to help children and their parents learn…Grupal University of Louisville Louisville, KY Oct 15 – Dec 9 Violin 1, 5, 6, 7, Practicum Suzuki School of Newton Newton… Read more
Listo, Ya!
June 1, 1990 / Chile, Latin America, Peru, Barbara Wampner
Suzuki Festivals in Lima, Peru, and Santiago, Chile. While the violin and piano programs had been started and nurtured by teacher…cello teacher trainer in either country. Marilyn did as many violin teachers may do, out of necessity, and began some instruction…Spanish and some wonderful playing of Peruvian folk songs on violin. All too soon it was time for the final concert…and Clementi works with two pianists per movement. Two advanced violin students played the Bach a minor Concerto, first movement. All… Read more
Reflections on My First SAA Conference
September 18, 2013 / Conference, Conference 2012, Conference 2014, Teacher Development, Teacher Perspectives, Christine Goodner
Allen Lieb gives a session on the revised violin books at the 2012 conference I am a goal setting…person—perhaps it’s a result of being a Suzuki violin student since the age of three. I love making goals…Suzuki student taught me not only how to play the violin but how to break huge achievements in little manageable chunks… Read more
Recollections: My First Conference
November 15, 2013 / Blog, Conference, Conference 2014, Libby Felts
really enjoy the connections facilitated by the conference. James Hutchins, Violin Coordinator I teach out of my home, which I love…viola ensembles with fellow alto clef lovers! Ann Montzka-Smelser, Violin Assistant Coordinator As Suzuki teachers we give so much of… Read more
Suzuki E-News #62: Conference: New Attendees, Student Events & Session Proposals
September 18, 2013 / Events, Newsletter, Student, Suzuki
person—perhaps it’s a result of being a Suzuki violin student since the age of three. I love making goals…Merit School of Music Chicago, IL Sep 20 – Oct 18 Violin 3 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM Sep 23 – Dec…13 Violin 8 Houston Area Suzuki Piano Association Houston, TX Sep 25…Dallas Dallas, TX Sep 27 – Oct 14 Every Child Can! Violin 1 Suzuki Strings of Austin Austin, TX Sep 28 – 29… Read more
One Project, Many Fruits: Latin American Suzuki Ensemble/Suzuki Americas 2014
November 15, 2013 / Conference 2014, Espanol, Latin America, Latin American Ensemble 2008, Suzuki Americas 2014, Fernando Pinero
one more year left of high school and is studying violin at the Conservatorio de Musica de la Universidad de Colombia…follow and study today. Victor is a twenty-year-old violin…Javeriana of Bogota and is the soloist in the Barber Violin Concerto with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Manizales, Caldas. From Maria…que todo sea agradable. Cordial Saludo David Leonardo Angarita G., violin… Read more
Your Studio Can Still Support Our Latin American Students Traveling to Minneapolis in May!
September 6, 2013 / Conference 2014, Latin America, Minneapolis, Students, Studio, Cecilia Calvelo-Hopkins
with any questions. Thank you very much! Cecilia Calvelo-Hopkins (Violin Suzuki Teacher, Austin, TX… Read more
A Special Send Off for WWII Veterans: Barcel Suzuki String Academy Performs for Honor Flights
September 18, 2013 / Local Programs, Outreach, Students, Suzuki, Renee Riddle
arriving at the airport at 4 a.m., playing our violins for two hours, and extending practice times to learn new…even stop to hear the music—the music of young violin students filling the terminal with patriotic songs. The violinists are…to see the memorials that stand in their honor. The violin…the night to go to the airport and play their violins for two hours straight, it was quashed after our first… Read more
Suzuki E-News #61: Conference, Upcoming Courses, Find a Teacher, News from Here & There
August 20, 2013 / News, Newsletter, Suzuki
present new and revised editions of Harp School, Volume 4, Violin School, Volume 6, and Shinichi Suzuki’s Nurtured by Love…Download our free Answer Book 2013 today from the Potter Violin Company. Inspired by the historically distinctive bows of François…us! The Most Valuable Lesson I Learned from Playing the Violin It’s all about the quality of practice, not just…from a Suzuki Summer Institute this year? A Surgeon Among Violin Teachers A privilege of observing at ISSI (Intermountain Suzuki String… Read more
Encuentro Mexicano: The First Mexican National Suzuki Conference
September 18, 2013 / Conference, Espanol, International Activities, International Conferences, Latin America, Mexico, Leslie Mizrahi
the Philosophy course; Nancy Lokken, Carol Waldvogel, and Augusto Diemecke, violin; Christine Loewe Diemecke, cello; Kelly Williamson, flute; Michiko Yurko and…theater built at the end of the nineteenth century: a violin and piano recital by Sharí Mason (concertmistress at Mexico’s…all the four hundred participants at the Teatro Juárez: violins, violas, cellos, guitars, flutes, a few pianists, and all the…en el Teatro Juárez, donde participaron los 400 alumnos, violin… Read more
Suzuki E-News #60: Trumpet! Suzuki Principles in Action, Conference, News From Here & There
July 18, 2013 / Conference, Newsletter, Suzuki Principles in Action, Trumpet
Meeting Love Nurtured Music Program Richardson, TX Jul 20 Suzuki Violin Fiddle and Beginners Workshop Studio of Mary Hofer Stevens Point… Read more
Violin bow
December 14, 2017 / Bow, Violin
can I decide that I need a rehair on my violin bow? Pretty much once a year if you are a…was too loose or too tight, so again, a good violin shop makes a big difference… Read more
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