I am a new Suzuki Piano Teacher with many years of experience teaching classical piano at the beginners and intermediate levels to children of all ages. I am creating this blog to capture some of my rough notes from teacher training, pedagogy books, workshops and experiences from my own studio. The earlier entries are taken from the lesson notes for the pre-Twinkle level class I had taught outside the formal Suzuki method. Your comments and feedback are most helpful. Enjoy!
Friday, August 3, 2012
Studio Letter for Music Camp
It's camp season all summer, but I'm running a compact 5 lesson version of the Musicland Adventure Camp in September. I'll be moving away in mid October but the new parent I talked to really wanted her kids to try out music for a bit so I'm running this last class in Ottawa, for now! Here's a copy of my letter
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Dear Parents
Looking forward to teaching your kids in the upcoming session of Musicland Adventure Camp (Suzuki Piano Pre-Twinkle) starting September 2011!
This GROUP class will involve storytelling, magical characters, interactive games and activities to introduce kids to playing piano at the introductory level. Topics include keyboard geography, right and left hand independent playing, note reading, music writing skills, music performance. By course completion, the goals include playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in Suzuki variations, early keyboard skills, pre-staff music reading, solfege pattern recognition, melody playback by ear and more! The target age is 3 – 6; parents will be encouraged to attend all the lessons.
The group class will be held on Saturdays at 9:30AM for one hour on the following dates Sept 8, 15, 22, 29 and Oct 6, 2012.
Cost is $100 each student for 5 lessons with a $30 registration fee per family. The material fee is regularly $25 each (music books, materials and a Suzuki Piano Book 1 CD). However since there are things your kids can share, how about $30 even. Tax Receipts will be sent out by the end of the year for the Children's Activity Tax Credit (Ontario) and the Children's Art Tax Credit (Canada). Please make a check payable on the date of the first lesson for $260 total for the two kids.
Please see the attached brochure for more information about my studio and policy, and please sign and return the Student Information forms. See you!
Sincerely,
Royal Conservatory of Music, ARCT Beginners and Intermediate
Suzuki Piano Teacher http://suzukiassociation.org/people/deborah-tang
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