This past weekend, I taught at the Massachusetts Suzuki Festival. It was our biggest ever with more than 330 enrolled students for the entire weekend. The quality of the teaching, the caliber of the students, being in the beautiful spaces of the New England Conservatory, and especially the amount of …
Groups from my Suzuki Program performed on stage at Cary Hall for the Lexington Community Music Festival, May 19 2018.
Fiddle Band Workshop | Saturday October 8 1:30-5:30 On Saturday I hosted a fiddle band workshop featuring visiting fiddle band the Group of Seven, led by violinist and longtime friend and colleague Denny Goertz. Denny and his group are based in Pender Island, British Columbia, Canada. The workshop took place at The Waldorf …
This past week, I attended the Atlantic Canada Suzuki Institute in St. John’s, Newfoundland, as both visiting faculty and teacher trainee. In my seminars with Paule Barsalou, we talked a lot about body mapping, the technique taught by Jennifer Johnson. I was especially impressed by Paule’s ability to make big changes …
On Sunday, I had eight of my students, including four from the Winchester Community Music School Suzuki Program, attend this year’s MA Suzuki festival. It was a long day, but a very exciting one, with fiddler Brian Wicklund and many Suzuki clinicians including master teacher Teri Einfeld. Thanks to all the …
I came across this blog post from the Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA). One of the things about teaching violin that is the most meaningful to me is that any child can find great depth through studying music. Read the article here:
I’ll be joining Canadian Fiddle Band Group of Seven this weekend at the Kaustinen Festival in Kaustinen, Finland. We will have five performances. Also happy to be performing my composition “The Chin” at last!
