I have just been asked to be the reporter again for the Intermountain Suzuki Strings Institute!  Here are some photographs that I took for it from last year.  Anyway, it means I get to take a Teacher Workshop course for free!  I was thinking about this one:
Cathy Lee (second week)  Topic: Establishing the [...]

Goals

I’ve started working towards a long term goal here and I wanted to blog about it so that I can keep track of how long I will be working towards it.  The first part involves performing Mozart D Major No. 4 with Joachim Cadenza and Unaccompanied Bach Sonata Adagio from G minor and … something [...]

Suzuki Graduation Concert January 18, 2007

Our Graduation Concert was a huge success last night! I’m all warm and excited by how well it went.
This is a shikishi painted by Dr. Suzuki that we had presented to the students on their graduation Certificate. It means, “When Love is Deep , Much Can be Accomplished”.
We had 35 Teachers
135 [...]

Dr. Suzuki’s Message to Graduates

A Message to Graduates from Dr. Suzuki
Congratulations on your achievement. Please remember as you are advancing with your music, the study of tone becomes foremost. There are many kinds of sound. Please work with your teacher to study tonalization…

beautiful sound
ringing tone
clear. clean smal tone

When listening to the performing artist on the CD, you can hear [...]

Elbow First

Elbow First

Please look over these points about violin playing by Dr. Suzuki:

Important Points on Violin Playing ~

(1) Practice the correct half-circle motion with the right elbow (upper arm).

(2) In order to make nice tone while playing down-bow, you must use the elbow.

(3) To make a ringing sound, use the [...]

Twinkler

Little Maya was just here for her lesson.  She is a lovely 5 year old Twinkler who enjoys the violin to the fullest!  Her lessons are never long enough for her.  She has learned how to do up bow and down bow circles (in the air), stirring the pot,  and tick tock (pandas).  She plays [...]