Teaching

The Suzuki method: A visionary with a violin

2021-09-08T09:35:00

1976 Dr Suzuki USA

Startled by children’s ability to learn their own language, Shin’ichi Suzuki applied the ‘mother-tongue’ approach to violin teaching. William Starr explains the principles behind his then-revolutionary ideas in this article from December 1998

In 1964. I walked into a packed concert hall in Philadelphia during the Music Educators’ National Conference to hear a programme given by a group of Japanese children. Like most of the others there, I had no Idea that what I would hear that day, and what I would later learn about the work of Shin’ichi Suzuki would greatly influence me as a musician and as an educator.

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