For more information about Suzuki Voice see www.suzukivoice.com
 

ESA Director of Voice Teacher and representative on the International Voice Committee: Dr Päivi Kukkamäki

ESA Teacher Training is held regularly in Finland

 

ESA Teacher Trainers:
Päivi Kukkmäki (Finland)

Mette Heikkinen (Finland)

Katrina Pezzimenti (Australia - also teacher trainer for PPSA)
 

 ESA Voice Report January 2009 
Published as web-page 16.03.09
first published in ESA Teachers' Newsletter

The 15^th Suzuki World Convention will be held in Melbourne, Australia April 14-19 2009
(including Suzuki Voice teacher training, exams and a children’s course).

Suzuki Voice Volume One will be published in the first quarter of 2009. 

In October 2008 the International Suzuki Voice Committee recommended that Suzuki Voice Volume Two be published. The Committee recommended also that the Volume One CDs should be published in English, Spanish and Finnish.  

The English and Spanish translations of Volume Two have been internationally accepted by qualified Suzuki Voice Teachers and advisors around the world after twenty years of work. Volume Two will be in English, Spanish and Finnish. Each of the Volume One CDs have been recorded twice and tested in practice during the past three years using the text from the internationally accepted Volume One. All three Volume One recordings use the same accompaniment and the fourth is accompaniment only.

Suzuki Voice Teacher Training
ESA, PPSA and SAA Teacher Training continues with the ESA Teacher Trainers Mette Heikkinen (Finland), Katrina Pezzimenti (Australia) and Päivi Kukkamäki (Finland). The basic content of Suzuki Voice Programme is the same in every country: eg. ESA level 1 is primary level Stage 1 in PPSA and Unit 1 in SAA. The International Suzuki Voice Programme Teacher Training manual was revised in July 2008.

The 7^th “Songs for Sharing” International Suzuki Voice Workshop was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina January 2^nd-8^th, 2009 and will include teaching and training. This event was organised by Analia Paula Capponi-Savolainen together with the Argentinian Suzuki Voice families and Dr. Kukkamäki.  This was the first teacher training of Suzuki Voice (Unit 1)  in Latin America with accepted trainee teachers- coming from Chile, Paraguay, México, Peru and Argentina.

A Suzuki Voice Workshop was held in Vantaa, Finland on June 9-12 2008 (Teachers: Mette Heikkinen, Analia Paula Capponi-Savolainen, Mervi Sipola-Maliniemi and Kukkamäki). Five Level 5 students graduated. An ESA Level 5 teachers’ Recital examination was held in Finland October 30th, 2008 at Concert Hall Martinus (Mervi Sipola-Maliniemi). The ESA Suzuki voice exam board has accepted the first Suzuki Voice teacher-in-training from Zimbabwe.

PPSA Suzuki Voice Teacher training was held at the Autumn Festival in Melbourne 2008 with Katrina Pezzimenti.

A Suzuki Voice Teacher Training (Unit 1) course was held on July 27-August 8 2008 at the American Suzuki Institute, Wisconsin University, USA. Mary Hofer organized the event and six new teachers were trained by ESA teacher trainer Katrina Pezzimenti. One of these trainees was the first Suzuki Voice teacher from Canada. 

Suzuki Voice web-pages www.suzukivoice.com are in English, Spanish and Finnish.