8 European Suzuki Teachers Convention 2024 Violeta Ancienė A Violin Teacher's Perspective Every encounter and every person around us influences us. Being among like - minded people who are passionate about their work and have a love and respect for those around them encourages us to search and discover, and then to pass this on to our students and colleagues. During the conference I noted down one or two sentences from each of the speakers. These sentences echoed my own inner thoughts and encouraged me to reflect on one topic or another. So now I will briefly share some of my reflections from my conference notebook. First, I would like to thank the Suzuki children and their teachers for the beautiful concert on Friday evening. Listening to them play gave me concert ideas for my own class. I found the videos from the archives interesting. I found a new appreciation for the importance of repetition and heard the different levels of performance, from beginner to advanced. Koen Rens presented Suzuki's philosophy so accurately in the Violin books. I have a lot to think about and research. Thank you, Lilja Hjaltadottir, for the excellent tonalisation lesson. Tonalisation is the topic that I am currently passionate about. Therefore, the lesson on toning in the Suzuki archives was a great reinforcement for me. Helen Brunner, reminded us how repeating something 10,000 times changes us. Edward Kreitman's observation that Suzuki children play music from the inside out - I totally agree with. Seeing the example of the girl who was singing the Etude and the progress one could make was "startling". It takes so little - just listening to the recordings is enough (not once, of course, but at least 100 times). Thanks to Samal Petersen for presenting the Shevchik variations. It encouraged me to remember Shevchik's exercises for the bow, to practice them in my own playing and to include them in my work with students. I can already enjoy a more beautiful sound, which makes my heart full. Thank you, Eva Belvelin, and Kathleen Spring, for your ideas on working with young children. I think they will definitely find a place in my work. Christophe Bossuat mentioned that, in order to move with the wave, we have to make a movement towards it ourselves. I believe that this conference has been for many a movement towards the wave that carries us all deeper into the understanding of the child and how to teach them.
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