All Suzuki articles
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FocusThe Strad Podcast: How to tailor the Suzuki Method to different students with violinist Meghan Faw
The violinist shares her personal experiences with the method as both a student and a teacher
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BlogsHow to adapt the Suzuki Method for adult learners - violinist Meghan Faw
Using the method while teaching adults requires a different approach from teaching children, writes the Suzuki-trained violin teacher
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Premium ❘ FeatureMother tongues: Global Suzuki Method
How can the Suzuki Method be relevant in places where children might never have heard of Twinkle? Peter Somerford speaks to teachers who have adapted their approach to cultures with their own strong musical traditions, or with differing expectations of parental involvement
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ReviewBook review: Wee Violin: World Music Preparatory to Twinkle
Celia Cobb reads Crystal Boyack’s introductory work for very young students of the violin
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GalleryPhoto gallery: 1,300 Suzuki students take over London’s Royal Albert Hall
Take a look at these stunning images of the British Suzuki Music Association’s recent gala event from 9 April
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Focus‘Twinkle’ always makes me cry: a Q&A with Suzuki trailblazer Helen Brunner
Pioneering Suzuki teacher Helen Brunner answers our questions of what the Suzuki Method means to her
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ReviewBook review: Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World
Andrew Braddock, editor of the American Suzuki Journal, reviews Eri Hotta’s biography of the founder of the Suzuki method
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Focus‘I can see good tone’ - Suzuki’s tonalisation exercises
With musical examples, Helen Brunner examines how Suzuki’s tonalisation exercises are used to create a beautiful sound on the violin. From the September 2021 issue
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Blogs‘A kinder, more loving way to teach an instrument’: Violinist Augustin Hadelich on the Suzuki Method
The violinist has recently recorded music for Suzuki Method Books 4-6. He shares with The Strad his thoughts on the method, the challenges of recording such beloved works and the sense of responsibility in immortalising the repertoire for the next generation of violinists
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VideoSydney Suzuki students play in solidarity for Ukraine
The string ensemble performs the traditional Catalan ‘Song of the birds’
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FocusAsk the Teacher - Mark Bjork
The Suzuki teacher trainer and violin pedagogue advises students on how to keep the attention of a class, and emphasises the importance of repetition
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VideoShinichi Suzuki group lesson
Watch old footage of the violin pedagogue guiding young students through Allegro and The Two Grenadiers
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Focus5 simple exercises to use when teaching young children
Suzuki teacher Edward Kreitman shares important musicality exercises to incorporate into lessons with young beginners, in this extract from the September 2021 issue
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FocusBringing the Suzuki Method to the UK
In the 1960s and 70s, the Suzuki Method was already making waves around the world. Caroline Heslop writes about Helen Brunner’s challenge to bring the teaching method to the UK, in this extract from September 2000.
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Premium ❘ FeatureSuzuki’s ambassador: Helen Brunner
After encountering Suzuki’s teaching in the US, Helen Brunner was convinced it should be brought to the UK. That the task should fall to her seemed a matter of destiny, she tells Caroline Heslop, in this article from September 2000
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FocusWhat is Suzuki? Elements of the global teaching method
In this extract from September 2012, Laurie Niles outlines the core elements of the Suzuki Method
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Focus‘Beautiful heart, beautiful tone’: Shinichi Suzuki's philosophy on sound
In this extract from the September 2021 issue, violinist and teacher Helen Brunner shares personal reminiscences of working on tone with Shinichi Suzuki
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Premium ❘ FeatureThe Suzuki method: A visionary with a violin
Startled by children’s ability to learn their own language, Shin’ichi Suzuki applied the ‘mother-tongue’ approach to violin teaching. William Starr explains the principles behind his then-revolutionary ideas in this article from December 1998
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VideoHilary Hahn plays ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’
Watch as the violinist plays out the closing credits of Danish television show The Eleventh Hour in this throwback video
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Focus‘Inherently democratic’ - equity and the Suzuki Method
In this extract from the September 2021 issue, Samara Ginsberg examines common misunderstandings and myths in the Suzuki Method related to sightreading, parental involvement, racism and social issues
