Mary has hosted 16 Zoom concerts since the beginning of lockdown in March 2020! Mostly of about an hour in length every Saturday during the isolation period. ‘Interest is growing and continuing and we are able to connect with students from all over the world connecting and making music together.’ Participants from USA , Canada, […]
Suzuki Teacher Training Moves Online
Since March – beginning of the lockdown period due to Corona Virus, the Suzuki teacher training community have moved their learning online. Suzuki Trainer Mary McCarthy has delivered teacher training session on Zoom. These are some photographs from a session where the participants are in Spain! With some observers from as far as Latvia […]
Mary at The Pianodrome
Last year I gifted community piano lessons to Pianodrome – a theatre made entirely out of pianos! The Pianodrome was designed and built by musician and sculptor Tim Vincent-Smith to develop the community and provide a space for all artists to learn, develop work and perform. Venues included Royal Botanic Gardens, Leith Theatre and The […]
Suzuki Piano in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada – January, 2020.
Exciting news! Just leaving Canada, where there is a New Branch of our Suzuki Family, in Salmon Arm, British Columbia! Liam started formally in January, 2018, when I came to visit as his cousins in Edinburgh are current pupils and his uncle Seán Spencer is an established Suzuki Piano and Suzuki Guitar teacher in Edinburgh. […]
Suzuki Teacher Training – Spain 2019
Louis Vaughn – Lesson with Mary McCarthy
An account by Louis Vaughn of a recent lesson with Mary: I have been learning the piano for the last two years getting lessons here and there but never consistently. The lessons would usually consist of me telling the teacher what I wanted to work on and that was about it. The first lesson I […]
2020 Spain Suzuki Teacher Training Dates
Details of the 2020 Suzuki Teacher Training Courses taking place in Spain are now available from the Spanish Federation website: http://federacionmetodosuzuki.es/proximos-cursos-de-formacion/598-curso-de-formacion-profesores-piano-suzuki-2019-20-niveles-1-al-5-598.html Enquiries and bookings can be made by contacting the federation directly at: info@federacionmetodosuzuki.es
Spring 2020 Scotland Suzuki Teacher Training Dates
Teacher Training and Irish Traditional Music – 14th and 15th March 2020 – Edinburgh Teacher Training – 3rd-5th April – Edinburgh
Mary McCarthy Visits Cusco 2011
MARY MC CARTHY VISITS CUSCO- 2011 Written by Flor Canelo, Suzuki and traditional piano teacher in Cusco, Peru This last January, we enjoyed the visit of Mary McCarthy to Cusco. We had a wonderful time together working with the students in Cusco, in our passion, the traditional music of our countries, Scotland and Ireland (Mary) and […]
Irish Suzuki Piano Teacher Reunion
Photo from a reunion of Irish Suzuki Piano Teachers, taken at the Loughrea Hotel, Galway, Thursday 20th June 2019