Participating were: Matthew Paslawski, Jessica and Jillene Richter, Ashley Yim, Melissa Wong, Frederique Tremblay, Stewart Evans, Sidney Knapp, Jeffrey Komar, Zoe Arthurson-Doren, Sarah Lapp, and Ivan and Leon Gnai.
Carmen Wise, Hisako Sato, and Kathy Lapp led the concert ably accompanied by Howard Janzen. We thank STES for lending us the piano. A very special thank you to the organizers with Festival of the Bow who made us feel so welcome.
The parents and students who took part in the Festival concert showed their dedication by bringing their children to a hot, mosquito-plagued rehearsal the Friday before. We had to play through the pieces really fast to keep the mosquitoes away!
As part of the Festival promotion, Andrea Hudson took her studio along with a few other students to the 8th Avenue Mall for a lunch-hour concert. Shaw TV was on the scene to capture the event.
"It was fun having your group, Carmen - they are very cute and talented too! Really appreciate you coming down to Stephen Avenue to perform also." Carol Dougall, Chief Organizer of Festival on the Bow
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Carmen's students including several who came up from Calgary, played their Recital pieces, followed by piano and early music students of Norma Lendi of Canmore, who also accompanied the strings.
Norma, Carmen and their friend Gundel Rau started off the Recital with a movement of Mozart's E flat trio. Then more friends joined in at the end of the programme to play through several movements of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Mothers and other people were, by all reports, very pleased.
Some of the Heartstrings students who played in Rolston Hall on May 13, Mother's Day are pictured here:
 Molly, Violin, Age 5 |
 Harry, Viola, Age 8; |
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 Frederique, Violin, Age 7 |
 Isaac, Violin, Age 12 |
On the weekend of February 15, 16, and 17 2001, over 100 Suzuki Method students representing 11 Studios throughout Calgary, Red Deer, Medicine Hat, and Canmore, attended Winter Workshop 2001, organized by the Calgary Suzuki Strings Association.
These students ranged in age from four years to 17 years of age. They had busy schedules. Each student had Master Classes with their Clinicians, Group Lessons, and Orchestra Rehearsal ranging in level from Pre-Beginners through Advanced.
They also had the opportunity to learn Origami paper sculpturing with Mrs. Hisako Sato.
Our facilities for the Workshop were magnificent. The entrance of Eastside Academy opens up into a spacious, beautifully-lit foyer with the needed rooms centrally located. Although the school was in the exotic far east of Calgary, it was surprisingly easy to access by car. Restaurants and malls abound in the area.
We are deeply appreciative of James Roberts, Principal, Art and Kathy Lapp, and school and church authorities for welcoming us into their beautiful building for this event.
This wonderful workshop was essentially a volunteer effort. Starting with the fiercely dedicated CSSA Executive and trickling through a large contingent of parents who organized everything from the fantastic Silent Auction (which took up much of the space of the majestic foyer), provided lunches for the Faculty, set up the rooms, provided for a nursery, lunch room, and even donated their services as accompanists!
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Daphne Hughes, Violin Clinician par excellence, led lively Master and Group classes for Book Two and Three Students. Students complained they could hardly keep up with her!
Daphne Hughes considers herself retired but in reality is highly active in the Suzuki world. Daphne writes many articles for the SAA (Suzuki Association of the Americas) and works closely with the Executive Board. She is currently running for election on the SAA executive. Daphne was a founder of, and worked many years with, the Guelph Suzuki Institute, considered one of the top-ranking music schools in North America.
For the Winter Workshop, Daphne came a day early and gave a wonderful overview to Calgary Suzuki teachers, going right to the basics of what the philosophy is all about. Two principles stand out among the wealth of information teachers received: one is to create a sense of family within the studio, and secondly to BELIEVE that this unique approach to teaching children really works!
Thank you to Daphne Hughes, who through her own great success as a teacher and teacher trainer, is proof that the Suzuki Method really does work.
| "I really like the violin camp and I enjoyed playing in the consert and my
favorite class was the master class because it taught me things like how to have better tone."
(Cody said it was OK to tell everyone that he happily raided his piggy bank to pay for coming to the Winter Workshop) Drawing by Cody Buchner, Age 8, in Mrs. Schipperus' class |
| We had another Daphne, Daphne van der Sloot, as our Workshop Violin Clinician.
Drawing by Ashley Yim, Age 4, who had Daphne as her Twinkle Clinician |
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Lucia Schipperus-Kappler, Violin Clinician, worked with Book One Students | |
Laura Jones' Pre-Beginners Ensemble delighted students and audience alike. Laura was our Workshop Director and also stands as Past President of CSSA. Laura is working on bringing two new prospective Suzuki kids into the world in early Fall. Congratulations, Laura. Well done! |
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