European Suzuki Association - Teachers Newsletter Vol 36 2016

13 Cooperation between Countries is the key to Progress European Suzuki Association November 2016 Dear Suzuki Teachers, Please can you ask your students to give a little of their time dur- ing December so other children can have the same opportunity as them to learn a musical instru- ment by the Suzuki Method™ Thank you so much. Kindest regards Martin Ruttimann CHAIRMAN ‘Give a Child a Teacher’ Raising Funds for Suzuki Development page 19 for details. Further fundraising will be needed for this and other projects to continue be- yond 2017 as our expenditure has been consistently higher than income in the past few years. European Suzuki Teaching Development Trust Registered Charity Number: 1092897 http://www.suzukidevelopment.org/ Britain) with course sessions in Tallinn and London. These courses are all supported by the Trust. All of these courses are planned to continue in 2017. They will be joined by an exciting new Violin teacher training course in Harare, Zimbabwe which will be directed by Karen Kimmett and supported by the Trust. It is hoped that there will be cooperation between South Africa and Zimbabwe. One teacher from Zambia is travelling to attend and there has also been interest from Botswana. See Funds are urgently needed by the Trust so that it can continue to give grants to sup- port Suzuki Teacher Training in countries throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa. The ESA gets enquiries every week from parents looking for a Suzuki Teacher for their child and all too often are not able to help because there are no teachers trained in the Suzuki Method™ in the country where they live. Teachers regularly contact the ESA wanting to train in the Suzuki Method™ and fre- quently we are unable to offer a course close enough to their country for them to travel to. For more details of the ESA ‘Give a Child a Teacher ‘ fund raising campaign, please see the ESA website. www.europeansuzuki.org is a prime example. The Estonian, Lat- vian and Lithuanian Suzuki Associa- tions, as joint organisers, will take it in turn to host course sessions, and one course will be held in Helsinki. Seven Russian piano trainees travelled to Warsaw to take their exams (6 level one + 1 new trainee who took an as- sessment), alongside Marzena Jasin- ska’s Polish course exams. The Estonian Piano Teacher Training course is run jointly by Marzena Jasin- ska (Poland) and Grant Mead (Great About The Trust The Trust was set up in 1994 by individual members of the ESA to help musicians and teachers in Eastern Europe who wanted to become Suzuki teachers. The Trust was regis- tered as a Charity in July 2002 The Objects of the Trust are ‘to advance the education of the public, particularly children and young people, about all aspects of the teaching methods, philosophy and practices of Dr Shinichi Suzuki in Europe and elsewhere Mission Statement: The Trust supports teacher training so that children can be of- fered high quality music teaching using the Suzuki approach, based on the principle that all children possess ability which can be de- veloped through a nurturing environment. Benefits : In all the countries where teacher training programmes have been set up, the beneficiaries are not just the children and their families but also the many excellent young musicians who have trained as teach- ers.