Lecture/demonstrations and Workshops
Learning from Suzuki: Piano Teaching Ideas
Enjoy your teaching more - help your pupils play better

My lecture/demonstrations offer music teachers a chance to see some of the ideas of the Suzuki method in action, and to hear how children (as well as family and teacher) benefit from this approach.

The talk covers all aspects of Suzuki teaching:

• VERY YOUNG PUPILS - such an eagerness to learn!
• INVOLVING PARENTS - their interest motivates the child
• BUILDING A COMMUNITY - families become a supportive network
• LESSONS - working with child AND parent
• LISTENING - provides a musical framework and aural repertoire
• PRACTISING - keeping up enthusiasm
• PERFORMING - right from the start

including ideas you might like to build into your lessons:

• GROUP WORK - fun with games
• ENSEMBLE WORK - doubling up in duets and trios
• OBSERVING - other pupils’ lessons
• DEVELOPING MEMORY - playing by ear
• BUILDING REPERTOIRE - favourite pieces
• THEORY AND AURAL - the early stages
• SIGHT-READING - duets with teacher
• SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS - introducing variety

Click here for further Piano Teaching Ideas given at demonstration.

Past lecture/demonstrations
Starting Young with Suzuki

• Birmingham 1999
• Harrogate 2000
• Southend-on-Sea 2001
• High Wycombe 2002
• Nottingham 2002

Learning from Suzuki:
Piano Teaching Ideas

• West London 2003
• Northern Ireland 2003

What makes Suzuki different?

• Royal Academy of Music, London 2005

Ideas for Group Lessons: Learning from Suzuki

• Cambridgeshire 2006

Piano Club: Group Lesson Ideas

• Buckinghamshire 2007
• London 2007
• Essex 2007
• Nottinghamshire 2008

Suzuki workshops

• Barcelona 2007
• Hampshire 2007

Teacher training

• Ireland 2009

Comment from teacher attending previous demo in High Wycombe
“BEST EPTA EVENT EVER”