WELCOME to the third edition of the ESA Web-Journal.

 

The fourth edition of the Journal will be published on Monday 3rd March 2008.

 

We welcome articles from all countries in our region and from other regions.  Letters and comments may also be sent to the editor for publication in future editions.

 

The editor would like to thank all contributors, present, past and future for their help in creating this Journal.

The opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors and do not always reflect the views of the ESA.

 

How to read the Journal: Please use the links in the list of contents (below and left) to access features and news in a new window. The editorial page provides summaries of the various contributions as well as links.

Links to 2005  or 2006 Journal  or go to Archive
 

Permission to reprint
The Journal is intended as a resource for all our members, who will be able to reproduce our articles, in translation if they wish.  The copyright for each article belongs to the author.  For permission to reproduce articles, please contact the editor, who will ask the author's permission.  Most articles are also available as Word documents, which can be sent by e-mail.

 

LIST OF CONTENTS 
(Alphabetically by author)
On this page the links open a new window.  If pop-up windows a blocked, please use the link from the Contents page. Please note that two new articles were added on 29. March 2007, by Brown and Galvagno (see below)

Hal Abeles, Co Director, and Edel Sanders, Research Associate (Center for Arts Education Research, Columbia University), Year Six Assessment of the NJSO Newark Early Strings Program
The report was kindly sent by Allen Lieb, SAA violin teacher trainer, who is the Suzuki teacher trainer for the project.

Anon, Cello Conference Report and Interview with Rostropovich
Reproduced from Talent Education Research Institute Newsletter by kind permission of Mr Hoken Uchiyama, CEO (TERI)

Judy Weigert Bossuat, But I Paid for 30 Minutes
Reproduced  with permission from American Suzuki Journal
(also published in the ESA Teachers’ Newsletter)

New 29 March 2007:
Thomas E. Brown, What are the effects of using the Suzuki 'mother-tongue' approach on learning achievement in seventh grade Geography
Reproduced with kind permission of the author, a Geography teacher and Suzuki parent.

Analia Capponi, The Suzuki Voice method – unforgettable experiences and a Suzuki family that grows beyond frontiers 

Debbie Collison, Notes from a Suzuki Parent  
Reproduced with permission from Piano Professional, January 2007.

Lavinia Ferguson, Getting Together at Workshops
Reproduced with permission from Piano Professional, January 2007.

Caroline Fraser, Music Reading in the Suzuki Style
Reproduced with permission from Piano Professional, January 2007.

New on 29 March 2007:
Elio Galvagno, Celebrating 20 years of the Suzuki Guitar School.

Caroline Gowers, Working with Children with Special Needs: Girl with Down’s Syndrome
Reproduced with permission from Piano Professional, January 2007. 

Gill Gordon, Training as a Suzuki Teacher 
Reproduced with permission from Piano Professional, January 2007. 

Carey Beth Hockett, Working with Children with Special Needs: Autistic and Blind Boy.
Reproduced with permission from Piano Professional, January 2007.

Frank Kleemans, Struggling parents and struggling children?
In English and Dutch. 

Päivi Kukkamäki  Suzuki Voice Programme Celebrates 20^th Anniversary 2007 

Huub de Leeuw, How fluent are your Twinkles?

Jenny Macmillan, Ideas for Group Lessons.  
Reproduced with permission from Piano Professional, January 2007.

Jenny Macmillan, What is Interesting about Suzuki?
Reproduced with permission from Piano Professional, January 2007.

Grant Mead , Suzuki Piano Teacher Training in Britain.
Reproduced with permission from Piano Professional, January 2007.

Sharon Mark, Controversial Aspects of the Suzuki approach: an interview with Anne Turner.
Reproduced with permission from Piano Professional, January 2007. 

Kate O’Connor, Suzuki in Schools
Reproduced with permission from Piano Professional, January 2007.

Martin Rüttimann, New Old Ideas, Part 2. 

Andreas Schönle, Warsaw Workshop 

Professor Koji Toyoda, Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the 14^th Suzuki Method World Convention in Turin 

Amanda Wauchope and Alyssa Ralph, Notes from a Suzuki Family
Reproduced with permission from Piano Professional, January 2007 

Kerstin Wartberg, Only that which is Cultivated can also Develop!
Translated from German by Michael Hoover -Also in German

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