Every year, the Lithuanian Suzuki Association celebrates the birthday of Dr Suzuki with a concert. 

This year, the concert took place on 20 October in Kedainiai, one of the oldes cities in Lithuania, where 150 Suzuki students played with heart and living soul in honour of the founder of the Suzuki Method Dr Schinichi Suzuki.

The European Suzuki Teaching Development Trust aims to make high quality Suzuki  teaching in music and other subjects available to children in the area covered by the European Suzuki Association (Europe, Africa and the Middle East). 

Researchers at McMaster University, Canada have discovered that possible benefits of musical training can begin even before your child can walk or talk.

Dr. Laurel Trainor, Director of the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, together with David Gerry, music educator and graduate student, received an award from the Grammy Foundation to study the effects of musical training in infancy. For 6 months, groups of babies and their parents participated in one of two types of weekly music instruction.

Masidlale Music Project, an outreach and education programme funded by the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, will be launched in Atlantis next month.

Founded in 2009, the Masidlale Music Project provides Violin training using the Suzuki Method to children in the Cape Town area. Over 100 township children from three schools in Nyanga, Gugulethu and Langa benefit from the project.

The South African Suzuki Association held a Mall Concert in Illovo, Johannesburg on Saturday 22nd June 2012 in front of the Lovemore Music shop where most of the students taking part purchased their violins at some stage.