THE Volur-nc 23 Spring 2003 EUROPEAN SU ZIJKI TEACI{E RS' NE§I/SLETTER

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:$'! / Official Publication of the -I European Suzuki Association w; b Ltd (ESA)

The ESA's mission is to further Dr. Tru Shinichi Sr:zuki's Approach to education. The organisation's area of operation is Europe, thc Nliddle llast and Africa, as decic'lcd by the International Suzuki Ässociati<-rn of g'hich the ESA is a member. 'flre cornerstone oi maintaining quailn' in Suzuki teaching is Suzuki 'Ieacher Training. Training cours( s are pxrt dme and long term and foilou, the rules of the ESA's Teacher Training and Examinatjon I\{anual (copres of which are available from the national associations and the ESA office). Iquki Guitar - Elio Ga/uagnoJ 5'chool in 5'aluqo celebrates 15ilt Annitvr.rary Ex.rminations are held at fir.e levels leading to the Diploma of the European Suzuki Associadon. TABLE OF CONTENTS

For more information about clates, Organ becomes a Suzuki Instrument h1 Haukur Lt. Hanne.rson 3 venues and instruments taught, please The Suzuki Voice Programme in a Nutshell ly Päiui Kukkantriki 3 contact the organisers in each counül, Viola News 3 listed in dre centre pages of this journal. The Guitar and the Suzuki Method: intcruie»,a,itlt Elio Ga/uagno 4 Chairperson: F.leonorc Fürsrin zu Salm-Salm European Suzuki'Ieaching Development Trust: A report 5 Dcputy Chairman & ESA News: Board and Conference 6-7 Administratiye Of{icel News from ESA's National Associations /', t2-15 Dr. Birte Kelh., ESA, Stour I-Iouse, The Street, East Bergholt, ESÄ Information 8-9 Colchester, CO7 6TF, England ESA Teache r -T rainer f Examiners 9-10 E-mail: i [email protected] ESA Teacher-Trainees' E xam Resul t s 2001. -2003 10-11 NOTICEBOARD: Workshops 16 §flebsite: www. europ e ans uzuki. org Please send contributions to the European Suzuki Association's §/elr-Journal at any time during the year.' The European Suuki Assoc.iation (ESÄ), Iondon, a Company I.imited by Cuaranrce No 14769.13. Registered Address and Secretarr, of the r\ssrrciation. Deadline for next Newsletter: 31 December 2003 T. C. Constable, Esq, Weld and Beavan, 32 Litde Park Gardens, Ilnfield HN2 6PF, England Comspantknn la tlte ]:-L1 Baard :Loill fu adln.;rtl lo tltt Dqu\, C/taintan Bankers: Adm & Companv Plc,42 PaIl Nlall S\\'l\' 5JG l FOR THE FIRST TIME: Suzuki Voice celebrates 15th Annivcrsary SUZUKI ORGAN TEACHERS Organ becorncs a Suzuki instrurncnt b1, Llanbr F. I Ianne.ron Thc first ilSr\ Level 1 examin:rtion ever for orgarr teachers took place in Örelrro in Srveden on the 9th of Scptcrnber 2002. This pioneering effort was lcurd lt1. IIS-\ Organ 'I'eachcr f'rainer Gunilla Rönnberg rvho has l>ecn grvrng a teacher tr:rimng course for Suzuki organ teachers in co-operatron wrth the NIusic College rn Piteä during the past few ).ears. SLx organ teachers passed their Level 1 ofl this occasion. Xlost of them live in the north of Sweden, whcrc interest for the

Suzuki Organ llethod has been big, particularly from the In lrorr), interaction betwecn chjld and teacher increascs and the 2003. Congratulations! role of the parent wrll be more obsen,ing and supporting in lessons. The teacher needs fo understand Child Development ln order Forlrrther inforrnation aboü lhe method see the Saryki Oryan lVebsin: htry:/ / a»u.orvanyrlrki.run haailabh i» Saedisb and Enolih. Or nntar!: Cmilla to support the personal development of each child and arlakcu Rönnbetg Klockaryärdcn, Nnkabl 218, S-705 96, Clanshamnar, Sueden love of music through singing. Thc emphasis is on cvefl,dat' singrng, development of a natural r.oice, listcntng anC supporting hnguistic ability. ,\mong the specral fcatures arc parent orientation, work with famil-ies, special lessons (group lessons, family lcssons and individual singng lessons atc- possible from the age of three), recording rndividual sineilg lessons, performing from an early age, singlng in tlifferent languages from the age of two, special singng excrcists, l;ook recitals and an international teacher exaffr system.

For int'otmuliun uboal Saryki Voirc 'fearher'l'raining throup/totrl /lu' trnll. please rontai Ptjiti Ktkkanäki Llus.lis. - Rekolantie 10-12, 0l'100 l'an/,t't, )Fin/ard.. F,x: + )58 9-8;1 :5t: - e nail: baiiGDikl J7.hh,li

Viola News \/iola Teacher Training is now available in the IiS,\ rrrca. Lonr term viola courscs are being planned, as wcil as short tcrrn 'conversion' courscs for qualified Suzuki violin teachcrs. Interested individuals or national associations should contect the viola teachcr trainers for furthcr information.

S Sr'"'eclcrr, c urati: lEva Nilsson, Skidspäret 11, 903-3u Urneä, eva. nils s on. rnusik (4)urnea. se ßatk ro»: hlaia Axill, Ian I laXträn (towr teatlxr), Gunil/a Kdrbson, Mikael I lil/- Ilona 'Ielmenvi, Ll nrborg I Iavc 52, 3460 Birkcrod, I )t'rrnr.trk, gre n, I)writ lüc/urdson. l'-roil m»: lili/ Eiklvn Ganiila Nimbery (earbe r trainer), Ann*l)r L)ndbery Sjödin e mail: [email protected] 4 orchestra thcir child is now ablc to plav a passage that tl.rey The Guitar and the Suzuki Method prcviousll' found very ciifficult. A celebration of two important anniversaries. I saw from the postcrs that you arc about to celcbrate. We havc rwo particular e\.ents to cclebrate. 1'he ;fallan,ing cansists of excerpts fron d neil'rpaPff inten,iea' »'itb Elio This year the Suzuki School in Saluzzo is officialll, 15 ycars olcl, Caluagno lo nark tbe 15tt) annitertary of bis scltool in .lahi7o. T'be fu// although I had already been experimcnting alone in m1' lext in Englis/t is auailable on tbe E5,.1 a,ebsite. u,orkshop for some 1,cars. In this se nse, I was verl' lucky, What is the role of the parent? because I discovered some extraorclinary familics who allorved The one precondition I ask of the family beforc I begrn is a me to trcat their childrcn like guinea pigs. I discovered so mucl'r. passion for music. This will help overcome the usual difficult And the n 'Chitarrissima'is celebrating its tenth cdition. moments. Families decide to bring their children to the music What is Chitarrissima? course, just as they might take them every Sunday to the It w'as born from an awareness that our instrumcnt u,as seaside, museum, concerts and on. mountains, the the a so cxploiting litde or nothing of its chamber repertoire or works us even the is Some families approach before child born and are for several guitars. So I thought that if this was importanr for 2- a listening programme carefully. selected music. The given of 3 year-old children, why not to give it to students, to those v,itl-r the more one learns naturalll'. more one listens, These children a diploma and to professionals? One comes to Chitarrissima to snatches music before they can säy or hum of "mum" "dad". play in an orchestra, because the «rrchestra is one of the pillars How should one listen? of the Suzuki method and not something extra or something It is enough that in the environment where the child is born and added at the end of the day after the master ciasses. That is the gro§/s up, the music the child hears .includes the music he or she main obiective around which othcrs are growing (to mention will start playing at 2 or 3 years old. just one, a project with Dr. Brazzo on the health of the Once the child starts classes, the mother or father should make musician) sure the child hears the repertoire every day, then they should Secondly, teachers trained in the Suzuki method have to be ablc find time to play and repeat what the child has learned in the to organise and to direct a children's orchestra: how will thev lesson. learn without direct, personal experience? There[ore, is an important aspect their And if the child does not want to do this? Chitarrissima of training. Every case is dift-erent, but in general, if the parents find the What motivates a teacher to choose this method? time to play with their children .rhen the children ask them to, The conviction that each child can learn and can learn to sing there is no problem. and play just as he learns to speak. I saw the phrase "educating the talent" in the school What is the ultimate aim of the method? brochure: what does that mean? A former president of ASTA (American String Teachers To put it simply, Dr. Suzuki intuited (and studies confirmed it) Association - the society which groups together all American that each of us has talents, including musical talent: developing teachers of stringed instruments), Joseph Gingoid, said that Dr. it to the maximum, whether it is a small or great talent, depends Suzuki did more for the violin than any other teacher in the last on the surrounding environment. It is only in that way that each century. And ,vet when one asked Dr. Suzuki what his aim was, individual's growth is harmonious and at peace with itself. he said his interest was in forming citizens with hearts full of wonder, who were willing to listen and understand the feelings are So we children of our environment? and the needs of others. People with this heart and this Yes, Dr. Suzuki did not foresee the battles between different sensibility - he asserted - can then reach the heart of Mozart's schools of thought that emphasise hereditary factors or and Bach's compositions, the ultimate aim of making music. environment täctors. As far as he was concerned, there was no conflict: for example, without the contribution of the For farl/Ler inforzaa/ion on wri/ar tearltinp antl lrainins, bledse see ltttb:/ / environment children cannot learn to speak, even if they have a n u,p. s e i ro rde. i I / ga I rugn o s t

The Polish TeacherTraineu (uiolin, piano, gaitar and ce/lo) aith Kasia Boroaiak - seated in lhe tenlre ESANE§I/S

The Board of Directors of the Europcan Suzuki Association met in London on Friday. 20, Saturday 27 and Sundal, 22 Septcmber 2002. Present were 18 board members and two board members elect. Thcre rvere four apologies for absence. The ESA Teacher Training Panel met at Belgrave Square, London SWI on Friday 20 September 2002 at 5pm. The Annual General Meeting of the ESA, which was attended by all the participants in the Teacher Trainers and :sä Instructors Conference as well as local &:.di$& teachers was held at Oak Lodge School on Saturday 2i September 2002,5pm.

Frcm tfu Board Meeting heLl on 22-2) September 2001 in Suffolk, England. : ESA \ilrelcomes I-.ef to igbtfan thefront:: two nesv countries Front Rop: Hsab de L.eew QnQ, Ltla'l'auon (f witqerland, Harkr F. Hanttesson (Deprj Chairnan) Row 2: Trud1 B1run Fah;t (re/and), .f arah Han/E (flile), Ana-lllana .lebastian (lpain), llananne \1gner Al1 at the ESA meetings were delighted to ()ennark) Bir* Kefu (Adnintstrator) - Rop i: Cbristophe Bossaat (France), Henry Tamer (I1on. Vice- welcome two new National Association Pruident), 5'ara Bethge (CB), Mary Canphel/ ()ep4tJce/and) - Back Row: Chnstine lldgasiner (piano), members; the Estonian Suzuki Association, Roen Rtns (Be/§m), Raino Pä:it'aläinen (depng Finland); St'en Sjiigren (-\'weden) and the Norwegian Suzuki As:ociation. Both associations had fulfilled the criteria Director. A vote of thanks was given docurnent was written in 1980, and to for membership and were formally elected, for all their work on behalf of the E,SA reflect the present organisational bringing the total of member countries to and their colleagues. structure of the ESA. 1 Representatives from both These changes were presented as a 8. The new Deputy Chairman is Birte organisations were present at the meetings resolution circulated to members in Kelly, who alst-r continues as and the new board members, Sirje Subbe- accordance with legal requirements and administrator. Sven Sjögren is the Tamm Estonia Anne-Berit debated by the board and AGNI before from and ESA's new representative on the ISA Halvorsen from Norway took their places being formally adopted. board. The instrument directors elected for the final board meeting session, having bl.laws and the updated for a term of three years by their The observed eadier sessions. N{emorandum and Articlcs of colleagues are Marja Olamaa, violin (re- Ässociation will be published in the eiected), Kasia Borowiak, piano, and forthcoming ESA Handbook. Other Board Changes Ruben fuvera, cello (u,ho joins the board for the first time). Copies of thc by,law-s, which inclucle the Dr Haukur F. Hannesson: The ESA said E5,,1, l'eacher Tiainiry and tixaninalion farewell to Haukur, who was a board L,[anml are available from national member for more than a decade and ESA appoints eight new associations and lrom tl-re ESÄ office. Depuq'Chairman since 1995. He led the Teacher Trainers association through a period ofgrowth and development for the method and teacher Following the recommendations of the training in Europe. He ensured that the ESA Teacher Training Panel, the board Recorder News ESÄ itself remained a lean and effective confirmed the appointment of eight teacher training syllabus for organisation, and that the board focused on new teacher trainers. These are marked The Record teacher training for ler.els 1-3 improving the organisational structures and bold in the List of teacher trainers in the has now been agreed by the ESÄ communication of all ESA organisations in ESA Information Section. advisory committee for Suzuki Europe. All his colleagues on the board Recorder. and among the teacher trainers paid tribute ESA to his skills and achievements. A Governing Documents The ESA board approved the exam presentation was made: a personal present repertoire and teaching points for levels in the form of a print; a slrmbolic present Foliowing several years of preparation 1 and 2 in 2001, and for level 3 at its which was a sum of monelr d6n216d in his the frnal version of the ESA's bylaws meeting in September 2002. name to the European Suzuki Teaching was presented to the board and AGM Deveiopment Trust, of which he remains and approved. During the drafting For information about .faTuki Recorder chairman; and a contribution to the process the board had consulted ESA's teacbing and aboü teacber training plan.r, purchase of a new computer, given by own law),er and, ofl his advice, a cofitdcl: coUeagues and nauonal associations. specialist in non-profit organisation Nanq Da1, (UK) e-nail: law. As a resuit the ESÄ had also been Two other board members retired at the [email protected]. tk. com or: advised to update its Memorandum and - AGM: Carey Beth Hockett as Cello a a b D e / ue r /I\ L) e -n a i / i. d e / u e {d fre e le r. n /. Articles of Association to comply with Director and Christine Magasiner as Piano Po.rtal addresses are auailablefmn ESA ofice. legislation introduced since the original Deueloping Teacher Training: News from ESA Countries 3rd E,SA Conference DENMARK former Suzuki str-rdent) played Thc third confcrcnce for ESA Teachcr Thc I)anish Suzuki Institutc movernents from Beethoven, Ha1-dn Trainers and Instructors was held at Oak (I)Sf celebrated its 25th anniversarl-at trvcr and Ravel tdos. bdge School on Saftuclzrr, 21 and Sundar- coflcerts: First on the 28th Apnl rn 22 Septernbcr 2002, attended by a total of of The importance of more than 25 years of the 'Ilr.oli Concert Hall. There rvere 60 delegates and gucsts . rvork b1 f'ove and B6la is at last about to piano, violin, viola and cello solos and be fully recognised outside the Suzuki The Il,SÄ is veq. grate{Ll to Richard N{artin 'I'he groups of violins, violas and cellos. world irr Denmark. One of the proofs is a o[ Intcrnationa] N{usic Publications for thc chamber orcirestra also perfonned. newl1, founded Honorary Nlusic Prize sponsorship which enabled us to €Jenerous Because of the verl' special event all ("Dansk NIusile more ncu's ncxt timc. Eia Punkko

Jaap Deluer (I\L) and NanE Da[, (E ngland) recorders;, Sarah Hanley (E try/and) and Maja- bena Mäkilä (Fin/and)flatet, at tlte International lVorkshop at Calford in Arga:l 2002. Continaed on page 1 2 e -n-rail: [email protected] Teacher trainingfor üolin, uiola, piano, flüe and (Anne-N{arie Oberreit) ce//0. Re-ridential corrses, held in i-ondon, stafting Information DENMARI{: Marianne Rl.gner Apil. Ako uiala and recorder (Iove Detrekö1) ESTONIA: Sirje Subbe-Tamm Danish Suzuki Association from ESA (Kamen Kääramees) FAROII ISLANDS: Sämal Petersen www.suzukiforbund.dk The Annual General Meeting of the (Jakl