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

 

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.

 

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

2005 Journal: Please use this link 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.

Hal Abeles, Co Director, and Edel Sanders, Research Associate (Center for Arts Education Research, Columbia University), Year Five 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. For more information abut the background to the project, please see Editorial or Felicity Lipman's Report from the SAA Leadership Retreat.

Judy Weigert Bossuat (ESA and SAA Violin Teacher Trainer, California)
Eye Dominance and String Playing
This article was published on the ESA Web-Journal in June 2005 and reprinted with permission from the American String Teacher, vol 55, no 1 (February 2005)

Helen Brunner (ESA violin teacher and teacher Trainer, London, UK)
The First British Suzuki Institute National Graduation
This article is also published in ESA Teachers' Newsletter, Spring 2006. 

Béla Detreköy (ESA Honorary member Violinist and Teacher, Denmark)  
How Suzuki Changed my Life.
This article was first published in the International Suzuki Journal 2003 

Tove Detreköy (ESA Honorary member, ESA violin teacher trainer, Denmark)
How Suzuki Changed my Life
This article was first published in the International Suzuki Journal 2003 

Felicity Lipman (ESA Violin Teacher Trainer, London, UK)
SAA Leadership Retreat at Asilomar, California  May 2005
This article is also published in the ESA Teachers' Newsletter Spring 2006

Jenny Macmillan (Suzuki piano teacher and Instructor, Cambridge, UK)
(i) Involving Parents: a review of the literature.
(ii) Involving Parents: a survey of attitudes.
The above articles have been reprinted with permission from the April and September 2005 issues of  Piano Professional, the journal of the European Piano Teachers Association. For a brief summary of the articles, please use this link: SUMMARY

 Martin Rüttimann (Suzuki violin teacher, Chairman Swiss Suzuki Association)
New Old Ideas. 

Sven Sjögren (ESA Violin Teacher Trainer, Chairman Swedish Suzuki Association),
Music Power: what is good for the child is good for the world (English Translation)
Music Power! Det som är bra för Barnen är bra för Världen (Original Swedish)
This article was written for Swedish ESTA News, February 2006.

Kerstin Wartberg (ESA Violin Teacher Trainer, Germany)
Progress through Repetition. (English Translation by Mike Hoover)
Fortschritt durch Wiederholung. (in the original German)

Kerstin Wartberg (ESA Violin Teacher Trainer, Germany)
What influence does music education have on your child’s development? (English translation by Mike Hoover)
Welchen Einfluß hat Musikerziehung auf die Entwicklung Ihres Kindes? (in the original German)

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