Suzuki Method & Alexander Technique
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Suzuki viola and violin lessons for children ages 3 and up.
Immersion
Children can learn music much like they learn language: through consistent exposure, listening, imitation, and repetition. Just as language develops through daily opportunities to watch, listen, speak, read, and write, music becomes deeply instilled when children are surrounded by it from an early age. Regular listening, practice, lessons, and group experiences create an environment where musical skills can grow naturally and confidently.
Community
Children learn from one another, and music is even more meaningful when it is shared. Group classes and activities reinforce skills learned in private lessons while giving children opportunities to observe, collaborate, and celebrate each other’s progress. Families become part of a supportive community where they can share ideas, practice together, make friendships, and encourage one another through challenges. Most importantly, children learn that they are part of a community that believes in their ability to learn and grow.
Character
Learning an instrument develops far more than musical ability. It cultivates focus, problem-solving, creativity, sensitivity, coordination, teamwork, perseverance, and time management—skills that extend far beyond the music lesson. Through the process of learning, children discover how to work through challenges, appreciate their own progress, and develop confidence in their ability to learn.
“If a musician wants to be a finer artist, he must first be a finer person.”
— Dr. Shinichi Suzuki
Family Time
Music creates an opportunity for families to slow down, take a breath, and share something meaningful together. Parents play an irreplaceable role in a child’s musical journey—not only by supporting practice, but by listening to music together, attending performances, celebrating progress, and making music a valued part of family life. These shared moments can become some of the most lasting memories of childhood.
As Dr. Suzuki said, “Children learn to smile from their parents.”
Coming 2027
Connecting with yourself.
Lessons for all ages.
Performance: A number of people first come to the Technique due to reoccurring pain affecting daily life. They seek relief so that they can return to enjoying a range of activities from walking, running, sitting, working on the computer, and using the phone, to the professional performing arts, Olympic level athletics, and more.
Awareness: A subtle yet important sense that shapes what we do, how we do it, our feelings on the matter, and what we believe about ourselves. It can be a lack of awareness that gets us into trouble and pain, or that what we thought we were doing is not what we were doing at all. Often when exploring an activity as listed above, we uncover a different awareness of the situation.
Potential: Awareness brought into performance allows for new discoveries to be made. When you experience more than one way to complete an activity there is potential for more or greater outcomes. How far you take the work is up to you.
Prevention: Frequently revisiting awareness and potential gradually lessen the habits, and original reasons for seeking lessons. As is true for many things, practice does not make perfect, but can make permanent.
It is my hope to pursue prevention further, by exploring ways to make this work more accessible to children. F.M Alexander, much like Shinichi Suzuki, always believed this work should be integrated early so that children could grow with the work into adulthood.
Future Project
Ability develops early.
Suzuki Early Childhood Education classes for infants to children age 4.
Why Early Childhood Education?
In a story from Dorothy Jones, she shared that she heard Dr. Suzuki say that “Music education of a child should not start at birth but should start nine months before birth.”
He later changed this saying, “I was wrong. The education of a child should not start nine months before birth, but nine months before the birth of the mother.”
Later adding, “…. And don’t forget the babies.”