Saturday, 5 May brought our annual Graduation Concert.
Dr. Suzuki created Graduation Levels for each instrument. Each graduation level reflects the first time that all of the skills a student has learned appear in the same piece! This is the reason that often the graduation pieces seem much more complicated than the pieces that are right before and after.
This year’s graduates are:
Piano Level I Piano Level II
Sophia Edwards Aidan Chan
Lucas Ho
Cello Level IV
Ian Mak
Viola Level III Viola Level I
Jessica Elliott Aslan Au
Ashley Won
Violin Level I Violin Level II
Christopher Morris Shreyas Rajaram
Isabel Zeng
Vera Zhang
Violin Level III
Hermione Au
Naphat Chanpongsang
Nithit Chanpongsang
Caleb Chung
Andrew Zeng
Violin Level V Violin Level VI
Charlotte Cheung Charmaine Chan
Tom Chiang
Marcus Poon
Suzuki Talent Education is the “Mother Tongue Method“. One of the most important things about the Mother Tongue Method is the creation of the environment for our children’s learning. Our parents learn alongside, and just ahead of their children. Both so that they can provide a good model of practicing, effort, and determination at home, and also to prepare them to be ready to be successful as the Home Teacher during daily practice. Each year, our beginning parents join together and represent all of our parents and the work they do as Home Teachers every day. This year, we had beginning parents from cello, piano and violin all playing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star together!
We also presented the medals for our annual Go For The Gold 100 Days Challenge! This year’s challenge was 100 days of Listening. Daily environmental listening to the reference recording is the foundation for success as students of Suzuki Talent Education. We had over 100 students who received medals for listening at least 75 days during the challenge period!
To end our concert, all of the students and teachers performed Dr. Suzuki’s “Wishing” together in its original Japanese form, and in English translation:
Video link: https://youtu.be/88v1dJT-8QE
We are all Good Children
Father, Mother, Please Help Me
Every Child Can Learn
Father, Mother, Please Help Me
Thank you to all of our parents for helping us every day on our path to learn!
