Design the cover for next year’s Minijournal! Submissions are due by January 1, 2009.
Criteria and Requirements
Students who wish to enter their artwork must study with an SAA Teacher member.
Students must be between 4 and 14 years of age.
Material submitted must… Read more ▶
American Suzuki Journal volume 36.4 is now being mailed to current SAA members. Look for it in your mail soon!
In this issue…
13th SAA Conference in Review
Creating Learning Community Awards
Revisions to Violin Books 1-3 Read more ▶
Pictures from the 2008 Conference
Lots of pictures from the SAA Conference in Minneapolis last May are available online. Look for yourself and your friends! Many thanks to Michiko Yurko, Ellen Berry, and iDream.tv for photographing the conference.
While you’re there, don’t… Read more ▶
Lots of pictures from the SAA Conference in Minneapolis last May are available online. Look for yourself and your friends! Many thanks to Michiko Yurko, Ellen Berry, and iDream.tv for photographing the conference.
While you’re there, don’t forget to explore the… Read more ▶
The Parents as Partners sessions from the 2008 Conference are available below as audio files. You can listen to them right from this page, or download the files to listen to later.
Supporting Your Teacher
Diane Schroeder, Board Chair and former parent… Read more ▶
Translation by Larisa de Elena
If someone still thinks that music and nature have nothing in common or even further that art and nature cannot exist together, they are totally wrong. Since the beginnings of art and especially music, great composers… Read more ▶
From a video presentation assembled by colleagues, family, and friends.
Cleo Brimhall is the founder of all the enduring Suzuki programs in Utah. She started the Utah Talent Education Guild under Dr. Suzuki’s loving guidance and has stayed on the SAU… Read more ▶
22 years ago, when he first moved to CT from Fairfax, VA to become the director of the University of Hartford’s Hartt School Community Division, Michael Yaffe had a clear vision of everything he was hoping to accomplish in his… Read more ▶
Good morning! I am Beth Titterington and a current SAA board member. I am pleased and humbled to present this award to Eleanor Allen. Unfortunately, Eleanor, who will be 93 on June 5th, is not able to be with us… Read more ▶
Imagine flying over hundreds of miles of rivers, mountains, with a town here or there but mostly vast wilderness. Then though it is nearly 1 am in the morning, through the glare of sunlight, a small city appears below.
Upon arriving… Read more ▶
On Conference years, through the CLC Awards program, the SAA is pleased to recognize and celebrate significant contributions by outstanding individuals, groups, programs and organizations within our unique community of teachers, parents, students, families and friends, members of the business… Read more ▶
With the post-Conference details wrapped up and plans underway for 2010, it’s certainly time to extend boundless gratitude to the many members, families and friends who helped make the 13th Conference one of our best. (Of course they do get… Read more ▶
The Board of the SAA is pleased to announce that Jeanne Baxtresser, flutist, has accepted to serve on its Honorary Board. Principal flutist of three major orchestras including the Montreal Symphony and Toronto Symphony, Ms. Baxtresser’s orchestral career culminated with… Read more ▶
Barbara Schneiderman, pianist, and nationally acclaimed author, lecturer and teacher who brought music into the lives of hundreds of grateful young students and their families died Saturday, June 14, 2008, at her home in Del Mar, California. She was 73.… Read more ▶
“Expanding the Vision” was the theme of the Suzuki Association of the Americas’ 13th Biennial Conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 23-26, 2008. A highlight of the Conference was the performance by the Latin American Suzuki Ensemble, which brought into… Read more ▶
The 7th International Suzuki Voice Workshop will be held in Latin America for the first time, in La Plata Argentina, January 2-8, 2009. The workshop will include Voice Book 1 teacher training with Päivi Kukkamäki and Katrina Pezzimenti. The teacher… Read more ▶
Sept 19-21, 2008, Guelph, ON
Members present: Lamar Blum, Teri Einfeldt, Christie Felsing, Mark George, Marilyn Kesler, Ruth Engle Larner, Carol Ourada, Diane Schroeder, Betsy Stuen-Walker, Beth Titterington and Pam Brasch, ex officio. Absent: Betty Wahlig
The meeting was called to order… Read more ▶
View videos of the Latin American Suzuki Ensemble’s performance at the 2008 Conference heritage event on Sunday, May 25, 2008, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. MP3 audio is available for download. A DVD can be purchased from the online store.
The Latin American… Read more ▶
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