III Latin American Suzuki Students’ Orchestra

Cecilia Calvelo-Hopkins is an orchestra teacher, a Suzuki violin teacher and an Orff teacher. She holds music degrees from San Francisco State University and the University of Houston. Cecilia has served as violin faculty, clinician, and lecturer in several Suzuki institutes, conferences, and music festivals in the US, Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Perú and she plans to continue travelling, learning languages, writing and making music for years to come.

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Luciana is an active Recorder Suzuki teacher involved in organization and teaching. She started her Suzuki training in 2004 in Lima, Peru in the International Suzuki Festivals. In 2006, she participated as a member of the main staff in that festival and has helped to coordinate it since then. Luciana has been part of the organizing committee of the “Encuentros de Alumnos de América Latina” (Latin America Suzuki Orchestra). She has been a guest teacher in different regions of Peru and Brazil. As a recorder player she has been soloist with different orchestras and she has also played in different chamber groups such as “Ensemble Artifex” and “Audi Coelum” groups dedicated to the performance of repertoire from the Latin American baroque and colonial music. She holds a degree in Social Science from the PUCP (Peru) and graduated (Recorder) from the “Escola de Municipal de Música” in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Leslie Mizrahi has led the Suzuki Piano program at her school, Instituto Suzuki Vive la Musica, for twelve years. Leslie was president of the Mexican Suzuki Associatin from 2017 to 2021 and was the director of the 1st Suzuki Convention of the Americas, Cancun, May 2019. She has registered Suzuki Piano training up to Unit Seven, as well as SECE Stages One, Two, and Three, plus several practicum and enrichment courses, mostly with Caroline Fraser. Her training also includes Kodály, Orff and Dalcroze pedagogies. Her students have participated in diverse festivals and Encuentros in Peru, Costa Rica, US, and Mexico; some have continued their musical studies professionally, both in the classical and popular genres. Leslie has taught piano masterclasses in several cities in Mexico and in Lima, Peru. Leslie began her 3 years term as member of the SAA’s Board on December 15, 2021.

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