This video shows a National workshop in Latvia August 2019 with students from Scotland, Latvia, Russia, Spain and Iceland. Celebrating the music Scottish composer Ronald Stephenson, piano students are all playing from memory a piece from Stevenson’s suite containing 4 pieces entitled ‘A Wheen Tunes for Bairns Tae Spiel. Mary has delivered Suzuki workshops and […]
Celebrating 30 Years of Suzuki in Scotland
30 years ago Dr. Suzuki visited Scotland and 2000 people came to St. Andrews’ to see him made an honorary Dr at the esteemed University of St. Andrews. Until then the Suzuki Piano method was not known or delivered in Scotland. Ann Turner who worked to develop the piano community and teaching programme in England […]
International Weekly Zoom Suzuki Concerts
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