faculty news
![]() Fall 2014Dr. Andrew Smith and Ms. Sarah Smale were soloists with the American Chamber Orchestra, performing Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra, K. 364. | ![]() Fall 2014Suzuki Schools cello teacher Andrea Mills has accepted a position as Adjunct Professor of Cello with the Sacred Heart University. |
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![]() Summer 2014Elizabeth Means was part of the cello faculty at the Intermountain Suzuki String Institute, in Utah. | ![]() Summer 2014Dr. Rafael Videira taught violin, viola and Music Mind Games for the Northwest Suzuki Institute (Eugene, OR) for the 3rd year in a row. |
![]() Summer 2014Sarah Smale was a faculty member at the Intermountain Suzuki String Institute, in Utah (Advanced String Camp) and the Ogontz Suzuki Institute, in New Hampshire. | ![]() Summer 2014Rie Schmidt participated on the Bard SummerScape festival for the 4th summer in a row. |
![]() Summer 2014For the 2nd year in a row, Daniel Corr directed the classical guitar studies at Usdan Center for the Performing Arts on Long Island, "America's premier arts summer day camp". | ![]() Summer 2014Astrid Bernard completed Music Mind Games - Unit 1 training with Michiko Yurko. |
![]() Spring 2014Dawn Rockwell presented at the 2014 Suzuki Association of the Americas Conference in Minneapolis. Her topic was "Building and Engaging Community with Suzuki Early Childhood Education." She also completed the Suzuki Early Childhood Education Level 4 training, leaving only one level of training to be taken before completing the training process. | ![]() Spring 2014Elizabeth Means presented two sessions at the 2014 Suzuki Association of the Americas in Minneapolis. |
![]() Winter 2014Juan Pablo Horcasitas released his CD "Among Songs & Dances". The work is available on iTunes, Amazon and CD Baby. | ![]() Winter 2014Dr. Rafael Videira has completed the course "Suzuki Principles in Action", a course designed to help teachers incorporate Suzuki’s principles effectively in their teaching. It allows for the sharing of ideas among all instrument areas. SPA is based on Dr. Suzuki’s belief that knowledge is an important first step, but “knowledge plus 10,000 times” is what produces ability. This important principle, which teachers frequently explain to their students, applies equally to the art of teaching. |