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The articles in the 2005 issue

First of all grateful thanks to all our wonderful contributors, who have given us huge variety and interest and some recurring themes. 

Sadly, last year we lost three outstanding members of our Suzuki community. 

Linda Collier, a Suzuki parent who was a trustee and treasurer of the British Suzuki Institute, died suddenly and unexpectedly in January last year.  A friend writes movingly about her life and the memorial concert arranged by her family and friends, among them the three Suzuki teachers who taught her children.

The ESA’s Vice-President, Henry Turner, a dear friend to many in the ESA, died last summer aged 85.  His work for the ESA was invaluable.

Finally at the end of the year, Judith Berenson, a pioneer of the Suzuki Method in Switzerland, died at her home in Florida at the age of 76.   

As may be expected, we have a number of articles on Suzuki pedagogy, which will be of interest to both teachers and parents.  Sven Sjögren’s article in praise of  Repetition is a reprint about an important aspect of the Suzuki Method. Two teachers write about their training as Suzuki teachers and the impact that it has had on their own teaching: Katrina Pezzimenti from Melbourne writes about Suzuki Voice and Anne Dorte Laub Hansen from Denmark on Suzuki Guitar.  Caroline Tuijtel, also a newly trained Suzuki teacher, writes with great humour and insight about her work as a flute teacher.  Koen Rens writes about the value of giving concerts in the right spirit - an article for parents, teachers AND students.

Still on the subject of pedagogy, but more specifically on Music and Dyslexia – and how Suzuki helps, Jenny Macmillan draws on her work as a Suzuki piano teacher and parent, and on her recent research as a psychologist of music.

This first issue has a number of outstanding contributions from Suzuki parents.  These include a thoughtful essay on musical expression by John Mathai from Norway and a lively account of Suzuki education in America from a Dutch mother and her two sons, suggesting that their experience may differ from Suzuki in Europe. But does it?

Several contributors have written in praise of Suzuki courses and workshops. Sandrine Schär-Chiffele writes about the importance of international links, taking last year’s National Workshop in Switzerland as her starting point.  
A ‘Workshop Odyssey’ describes how workshops raise the motivation of Suzuki families. As a result, the author, a Suzuki mother of four has become the moving force in organising a workshop in Cork this summer.
Another mother writes about the impact of the visits to South Africa of three ESA teacher trainers, Christophe Bossuat, Karen Kimmett and Koen Rens, not just on the teachers, but on the children, too.  If you find this article inspiring, you may wish to make a donation or organise an event to raise money for the European Suzuki Teaching Development Trust, which helps to make it all happen.

Last, but not least, Antonio and Lee Mosca share with us their vision of the Suzuki Approach and in particular of the forthcoming International Suzuki Convention in Turin; a vision which was inspired by the visit which Dr Suzuki made to their city and their Suzuki programme in 1986.

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