2022 Professional Development Series
All Instruments (General Philosophy-based) PD Timetable - All sessions 60 minutes in length, presented live on Zoom (unless otherwise indicated below)
Sunday 21 August
7:30pm Koen Rens presenting ‘Musical Skill and Character Development’
8:30pm Bruce Anderson presenting ‘War or Peace: In the Practice Session and In the World’ (pre-recorded)
Sunday 28 August
3:30pm Braxton Neate presenting ‘Ability Development Through 100 Enjoyable Haiku’
4:30pm Natalia Koptienkova presenting ‘Perhaps it is Music That Will Save Ukraine’
Sunday 4 September
9:30am Edmund Sprunger presenting ‘Supporting Suzuki Parents in the 21st Century’ (*please note this session will NOT be recorded*)
10:30am Molly Gebrian presenting ‘What Musicians Can Learn About Practising From Current Brain Research
Instrument Specific PD timetable – all sessions 90 minutes in length, presented live on Zoom
Violin/Viola
Sunday 7 August, 2:00pm Julia Fredersdorff presenting ‘Baroque Violin – The HIP Perspective’
Sunday 14 August, 11:00am Winifred Crock presenting ‘We Need to Read – Teaching Music Literacy for Strings’
Cello
Sunday 14 August, 11:00am Winifred Crock presenting ‘We Need to Read – Teaching Music Literacy for Strings’
Sunday 14 August, 4:00pm Yoshi Terada presenting ‘Teaching points of the Suzuki cello repertoire from an artistic perspective, over Book 2’
Piano
Sunday 21 August, 4:00pm Itsuko Bara presenting ‘The Developing Suzuki Piano Studio’
Sunday 28 August, 8:00pm Caroline Fraser presenting ‘Tone Development Through the Sense, with a focus on book 2 and 3
Double Bass
Sunday 14 August, 11:00am Winifred Crock presenting ‘We Need to Read – Teaching Music Literacy for Strings’
Flute
Sunday 14 August, 9:00am Laura Larson presenting ‘HIPP Suzuki Flute’
Sunday 21 August, 9:00am Noelle Perrin-Bryson presenting ‘Ensemble Playing for Suzuki Flute Students: Tools & Strategies ‘
Guitar
Sunday 7 August, 10:00am MaryLou Roberts presenting Guitar Professional Development
Sunday 21 August, 10:00am MaryLou Roberts presenting ‘Q & A session’
How will it work? Enrolling teachers will be sent zoom links to all sessions (by 5 August or two business days after enrolment following this date) and are encouraged to attend the live presentations, where possible, in order to show respect to these esteemed presenters and to gain the most benefit from the sessions. Teachers will be asked to have their cameras on, and microphones muted throughout the presentations.
In the event that an enrolled teacher is not able to attend the live viewing or enrols after a live viewing has taken place, links to recordings (with the exception of the session presented by Edmund Sprunger) will be sent to enrolled teachers as soon as possible, with a freshly updated list of recordings sent periodically throughout the PD series. Teachers who have attended live viewings will therefore have the opportunity to review the avaialble recordings.
Recordings will be made available online until Sunday 9 October. Please note that editing and uploading zoom recordings is time consuming so there will be an unavoidable delay between the session presentation and the recording being made available.
When do I have to enrol by? Enrolments will be accepted until Friday 9 September.
Can I enrol for part of the series? Partial enrolments are not permitted - teachers who enrol after the series has commenced may view recordings, where possible.
Why are there different prices for Double Bass and Voice/Baby & Toddler teachers? Reduced prices are available for instrument groups without 3 hours of instrument-specific professional development available to them, although they will have access to all sessions.
Terms and Conditions of enrolment
Cancellations or withdrawals are not permitted and no refunds nor credits will be provided, for any reason. Refunds (partial or otherwise) nor credits will not be made available for sessions missed.
Applications will be subject to 2022 teacher or trainee teacher membership of Suzuki Music or a local Suzuki association in another state, territory or country.
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