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09.05.2022 Become a Suzuki Teacher! Have you thought about taking a new direction with your music teaching? Have you been wondering about other teaching methods? Are you curious about the Suzuki Method?... Here in Victoria, Suzuki Music offers teacher training courses in Violin/Viola, Cello, Piano, Double Bass, Flute, Guitar, Recorder, Organ and Voice. The 18-month part-time Primary Accreditation course, being offered online and starting in May, includes instruction and lectures in teaching philosophy, particularly as it applies to the Suzuki Method. It covers techniques for teaching above all, the shaping of young students in those crucial early years of their development. For further information about becoming a Suzuki teacher, the training course or related information, please refer to the Teacher Training course information and application form on our website http://www.suzukimusic.org.au/2022course.htm or please contact Suzuki Music: [email protected] or on 9830 0433. 2022 Course applications will close on 25 February.

19.04.2022 Exciting news for violin teachers and students

05.04.2022 Very sad news from the ISA We will miss you Mrs Suzuki.

17.03.2022 Suzuki Teachers' Symposium: An Online Global Exchange. Reflect. Research. Renew In this rapidly changing world, Suzuki teachers need to take time to reflect on their practices, research new ideas and renew their spirit - just like Dr Suzuki did!... Suzuki Music (Victoria, Australia) is very proud to present our Suzuki Teachers' Symposium as an online global exchange of ideas using the Zoom platform to connect with teachers far and wide. Featuring Sheila Warby Memorial Keynote Lecturer, Dr Anita Collins, ABC Classic FM radio presenter Ed Ayres, as well as international and Australian experts in Suzuki and various instruments or disciplines (including violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, flute, guitar, organ, recorder, voice and early childhood education), there really is something for every Suzuki teacher. More information and bookings at http://www.suzukimusic.org.au/symposium2021.htm

05.03.2022 Become a Suzuki Teacher! Have you thought about taking a new direction with your music teaching? Have you been wondering about other teaching methods? Are you curious about the Suzuki Method?... Here in Victoria, Suzuki Music offers teacher training courses in Violin/Viola, Cello, Piano, Flute, Guitar, Organ and Voice. The 18-month part-time Primary Accreditation course, being offered online this year and starting in May, includes instruction and lectures in teaching philosophy, particularly as it applies to the Suzuki Method. It covers techniques for teaching above all, the shaping of young students in those crucial early years of their development. For further information about becoming a Suzuki teacher, the training course or related information, please refer to the Teacher Training course information and application form on our website http://www.suzukimusic.org.au or please contact Suzuki Music: [email protected] or on 9830 0433. 2021 Course applications will close on 26 February.

02.03.2022 The 2021 Suzuki teacher training course in Victoria is going online! More information below and on our website at www.suzukimusic.org.au. Applications for the course close on 26 February. Got any questions? You can email us at [email protected].

25.02.2022 JUST POSTED ON THE ISA WEBSITE: Our latest installment of the TALENT EDUCATION JOURNAL - these issues from 1983. More to come in the following months. Enjoy your reading!

22.01.2022 We are very busy getting ready for our Grand Annual Concert on Sunday 14 September, 2.00pm at George Wood Performing Arts Studio. Audience tickets are still available from TryBooking on http://www.trybooking.com/EYAA. We look forward to seeing you there!

22.01.2022 2015/16 Entertainment Books are now available from Suzuki Music. You can order them online at https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/18954w4 for the Entertainment Book in Australia or New Zealand. $13 from the sale of each book goes into our 2015 fundraising. Please help us by purchasing your copy and sharing this post with your friends now! You can buy the Entertainment book (collect from us or have it posted directly to you) or a digital membership (used via an app on your smart phone). Start making savings on all your entertainment needs now!

22.01.2022 Autumn Festival applications are due by 13 February - apply online at http://www.suzukimusic.org.au/festival.htm now so you dont miss out. Open to financial members of local Suzuki associations only.

21.01.2022 Thank you to Toni, Rosalie and Margaret for helping us to pack all the family and teacher registration kits for National Conference. There are more than 500 packs and it has taken two days!! You can see we are getting ready for Conference - hope you are too! Looking forward to seeing lots of Suzuki families and teachers there.

21.01.2022 Matsumoto 2019 Summer School information - see link below.

21.01.2022 Were getting ready for Winter Festival. Hope you are too!

19.01.2022 Todays Winter Festival photos are of our flute group in repertoire class with guest tutor Laurel Maurer (USA), the V2 violin tutorial who played Twinkle Variations with Maya Kitagawa (NSW violin teacher) beautifully while marching around the middle school cafeteria, and some of our V7 violin tutorial students (also with Maya Kitagawa) having a lovely time. More photos coming tomorrow and Saturday! We have so many more classes and instrument groups so stay tuned!!

18.01.2022 Welcome to 2017 with Suzuki Music! Administration staff are currently preparing all the information about term 1 events and getting the next newsletter ready. Hot off the press though is the Winter Festival info. We will send out some info later this week but if you want a sneak peek or to book now then head to www.suzukimusic.org.au/festival right now! Have a great start to the school year in 2017.

18.01.2022 Autumn Festival 2015 - all details and application forms (plus links to online bookings) available at http://www.suzukimusic.org.au/festival.htm. We look forward to seeing all our members there!

14.01.2022 We will be selling Entertainment books again this year and putting the money ($13 per book) towards our general fundraising for 2014. If you want to order a book or the new online Membership (giving access to the discounts right from your mobile device) you can use the following link to purchase it directly from Entertainment Publications online. If you preorder this book now you will receive some additional vouchers to use. https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/18954w4 Feel free to share this with your Melbourne friends and help us reach our goal.

13.01.2022 Suzuki Music is seeking a part time Events and Administrative Assistant. Check out the job ad below and the position description is on our website (www.suzukimusic.org.au)

13.01.2022 Autumn Festival 2014 brochure now available on our website www.suzukimusic.org.au. This brochure will be posted to all current financial members in the next week or so.

12.01.2022 A digital version of some of The Talent Education Journals is available from the ISA.

11.01.2022 Getting ready for the 2017 teacher training course at primary level. Our lectures start this Sunday for our 23 brand new trainees.

11.01.2022 Suzuki Music is raising funds with Entertainment Books in 2016. If you love to go out with your family and friends this is a great way to save money! Use just one or two of the coupons within the year and you have recouped the cost of the book. You can purchase books or digital memberships for anywhere in Australia and every book or digital membership that is sold through our site raises $13 for us. Please feel free to share this with all your friends!... Books and digital memberships can be purchased from: https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/18954w4

11.01.2022 Ever wanted to find out more about the Suzuki philosophy and method of teaching? Inherited Suzuki students and havent been clear on how they have been learning? Interested in what Suzuki teacher training involves?... This is the day for you! Friday 13 July 2018 Music teachers will have a specially tailored program of observation of classes, an introduction to the Suzuki method and a student concert to watch. You will observe some of the worlds top Suzuki teachers, plus the highly acclaimed Richard Gill AO, working with groups of students (approx. 500 Suzuki students will be on campus!) You will also have the opportunity to watch our most advanced students perform in the Gala Concert. Registration to attend this one-day program, on Friday 13 July, costs $80 per person plus TryBooking fees. The school Caf will be open to purchase food and drink, or you are welcome to bring your own. Registrations now open at https://www.trybooking.com/WHVS. Registrations close on Friday 29 June 2018 Registration fees are non-refundable. This program is not available to teachers who have commenced or been accepted into a Suzuki Teacher Training Course in any country. Venue: Trinity Grammar School, Charles Street Kew. Gala concert will be held at the nearby MLC Assembly Hall. Program: 8:30 Registration 9:00 9:40 Introduction to Suzuki method 9:45 10:00 Observe Richard Gill AO working with Suzuki students and teachers 10:15 11:15 Observe Suzuki classes as per individual timetable 11:15 Morning tea break 11:45 12:45 Observe Suzuki classes 12:45 Lunch break mingle with Suzuki teachers 1:30 2:30 Observe Suzuki classes 3:15 4:30 Watch Gala Concert (at MLC Assembly Hall)

09.01.2022 If you are shopping at Malvern Central (10:30 - 3:30) or Westfield Doncaster (12:00 - 4:00) today keep an ear out for our piano students performing in the Suzuki Piano Playathon. Half the registration fees for this event are donated to a charity - this year the money will be donated to CanTeen. There are also students participating at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School (1:30 - 3:30) and in various homes and teacher studios. Thank you to all the participating piano students, families and teachers. You are helping to make a difference and we are proud of you all.

09.01.2022 Suzuki Notes Winter editions has been emailed to our members today. Family members can enter a competition to be in the draw to win a Suzuki Practice Book by couting how many hyperlinks there are in the newsletter and posting their aswer with their membership number here! Some of the links are a little hid... happy hunting! The winner will be notifed by email and announced on this page.

09.01.2022 Congratulations Robert Turton, awarded Life Membership of Suzuki Music yesterday at the AGM. Robert has been President of Suzuki Music for 6 years and prior to this was Teacher Vice President for 7 years. Rob has been a fantastic President and has worked hard on many projects that have made Suzuki Music develop into the wonderful organisation it is now. Thank you Rob - a job well done.

08.01.2022 Thank you to Mr Haruo Goto for leading, from your Sydney home, our Melbourne violin book 1 to 4 students through play ins. What an uplifting way to end what has been a long term of lockdown for our students. Thank you to Emma Martin for being our Zoom host this afternoon. We wish all our students and teachers a lovely, and well deserved, school holiday period albeit still in lockdown for metro Melbourne.

08.01.2022 Dates for your diary... Suzuki Music Winter Festival 2017 Standard programs for students (violin, viola, cello, piano, flute, guitar, organ, voice) Thursday 13 to Saturday 15 July 2017. ... Advanced programs for students (violin and cello bk 6+; piano, flute, guitar bk 5+) Wednesday 12 to Saturday 15 July. Professional development programs for teachers (violin/viola, cello, piano, flute, guitar, organ and voice plus a day for Baby & Toddler (ECE) teachers too) Tuesday 11 to Saturday 15 July. There will be something for all Suzuki students and teachers. Keep an eye on our website in late January for full details. This event is only open to 2017 financial Suzuki members.

08.01.2022 Autumn Festival 2016 information now available on http://www.suzukimusic.org.au/festival.htm. Students 7 - 9 April Advanced Students 6 - 9 April Teachers 5 - 9 April This is an amazing workshop for Suzuki families and teachers - please see the website for full details.... Concert auditions close 15 December 2015. Festival applications close 12 February 2016

07.01.2022 Our major sponsor, Kawai, has a sale on. If you are in the market for a piano or keyboard why not take a look at these?

07.01.2022 Thank you to Libby, Moirsheen, Margaret, Angela, Helen, Bridgette and Shannon who helped us with bump in today. That felt like a lot of stairs we climbed! A massive thank you to Kawai for the pianos. The amazing JM and Sons removal group are almost done bringing them in (see photo below!) and Phil is here too tuning all those pianos...

06.01.2022 Matsumoto Summer School August 2020 news: A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL SUZUKI TEACHERS AND FAMILIES FROM OUR FRIENDS IN JAPANI! Please read below for the link and the a detailed schedule....Continue reading

05.01.2022 Day 2 of Suzuki Festival has finished. We have had 1.5 days of teacher professional development (violin/viola, cello, piano, flute, guitar and voice) and our advanced student program also started this afternoon. Todays photos are of some of our teachers in violin PD with Mrs Suzuki (Japan) and Cello PD with Sally-Anne Brown (New Zealand). We will post more photos throughout the week.

05.01.2022 Not long to wait now...

05.01.2022 The next Suzuki Music Autumn Festival will be held from 9 - 13 April 2014 at Wesley College Glen Waverley. Brochures and forms will be available on the Suzuki Music website soon.

04.01.2022 Still havent got your Entertainment book? FREE POSTAGE to your door for a limited time!! Purchase by clicking the link below before the end of August for your chance to win a $1000 WISH eGift Card and support Suzuki Musics fundraising: https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/18954w4

04.01.2022 Today (day 4) started with tonalisation for our instrumental teachers ... nothing unusual about that except our violin teachers were in for a special treat. You can see in our first photo some of them queueing to play Dr Suzukis violin. More photos are included today showing our voice group with Analia Capponi-Savolainen (Finland), baby and toddler class in action with Lucy Adeney and Kate Freeman, African drumming (with over 50 kids) with Simon Lewis, orchestra 2 with Trudi... Miles (New Zealand), piano enrichment class with Katrina Leibel, piano repertoire class in the keyboard lab with Maureen Mahon, violin repertoire and tutorial classes (various tutors including Hiroko Suzuki and Moirsheen Kelly-Keesing), guitar repertoire class with Seth Himmelhich and parent education with Margaret Bland. We also had our shared family morning tea - see if you can spot the before and during shots! Our fabulous morning tea volunteers, led by Helen Bird, cleaned up so quickly I didnt catch an after shot! And to top off a magnificent day we ended with our gala concert full of splendid performances from our fine young musicians. Hope you enjoy all these photos! There are so many more fabulous teachers - we hope to get some photos of their classes tomorrow on our final day. Sleep well everyone!

04.01.2022 Highly recommended concert next Thursday, 7.00pm, Wesley College, Glen Waverley. Tickets only available online.

03.01.2022 Welcome back to 2014. Just a quick reminder that Festival applications close on Friday 14 February - if you havent enrolled it is time to do so!

03.01.2022 Calling all Suzuki students and teachers in Victoria - this concert is for you! Suzuki Celebration Concert on Sunday 28 August at Melbourne Recital Centre. https://www.suzukimusic.org.au/celebrationconcert Performer registrations and piano auditions close Tuesday 31 May 2016.

01.01.2022 Autumn Festival is almost over. Families finished yesterday and teachers only have 45 mins to go! Thank you to everyone who came and especially to everyone who helped out in any way during the week. It was another great Festival - lots of music and a lovely sense of community.

01.01.2022 2014 term 1 event forms are available on our website http://www.suzukimusic.org.au/events.htm