Newest Schedule for Fall 2013 in the STRING THINGS SUZUKI STUDIO:

Here is a current schedule, which you may use to email each other and change lesson times if you need to, etc.

Also group classes are here, and also at https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1

or on http://www.stringthingssuzuki.blogspot.com/

 

Monday:
1:30 open
2:30 Kira W
3:30 Nina M
4:30 Sofia Parent
5:30 open

Tuesday:

10:30 Aliya and Asher P

11:00
12:00 Pat B
1:00 open
2:00 open
3:00 open

3:30 Sophia Pr
4:00 Kiana S
4:30 open

5:30 Audrey Z

Wednesday

10:00 Virginia N
10:30 Tony N
12:00 - 3:00 dePaul School
3:00 Elena, Emma and Elisa J
4:30 Sydney G

Thursday

12:00 - 3:00 dePaul School

4:00 – 7:00  Wang Family

Friday

4:00 Piano Group Class*

5:00 Violin Group Class*

*Group Class Dates

Sept. 6

Sept 20

Oct. 18

Nov 8

Nov 15

Dec 6

 

I hope we are all this happy to play our instruments this school year!

 

Group Class Dates:

Sept. 6

Sept. 20

Oct. 18

Nov. 8

Nov. 15

Dec. 6

 

4:00 piano

5:00 Viola and Violin

 

https://www.google.com/calendar/render

Here is a link to my calendar online.. Group classes will be posted next!

Welcome to the New School Year! Can't believe it's really here already!

I am going to post a tentative group class schedule and private lesson schedule here for my wonderful Suzuki Students. I hope this will be the best way to 'get 'er done'!

Monday:
1:30 open
2:30 Kira W
3:30 open
4:00 Sophia P
4:30 open
5:30 open

Tuesday:
12:00 Pat B
1:00 open
2:00 open
3:00 open
4:00 open
4:30 Amanda M
5:30 Audrey Z

Wednesday
10:00 Virginia N
10:30 Tony N
12:00 - 3:00 dePaul School
3:00 Elena, Emma and Elisa J
4:30 Sydney G

Thursday
11:00 Kiana S
12 - 5 Dinner Theater (til Sept. 15)
(after Sept 15:
12:00 - 3:00 dePaul School
4:00  open
5:00 open)

Friday
12:00 - 3:00 dePaul School (til Sept. 15)
4:00 Piano Group Class*
5 - 6:30 Violin Group Class*

*dates to be determined

If you haven't scheduled your fall lesson, please email or call me to reserve one of the "open" slots :)

vla_virginia@yahoo.com
727-455-0280

LET"S GET 'ER DONE!

Hello Suzuki Families!

My out of town performance schedule has been turned upside down twice now this week, so here is my final schedule (sorry for the mass email instead of individual contacts, I am traveling/practicing and trying to save my hands for those necessary things!)

Monday, I leave town at 5:30 (no MacKay lesson at 6:30)

Tuesday I leave town at 5:30 (no 5:30 Audrey lesson)

Wednesday I have to be gone all day, starting at 11:30 (no Wednesday lessons at all, except perhaps Virginia Ness)

Thursday and Friday are now totally open.

SO, I will reschedule lessons for anyone on Thursday or Friday if possible, and we will have VIOLIN Group Class on Friday after all at 4:30 - 6 P.M. I could do a piano group at 3:30 if the piano students want to do that.

Suggested Schedule:

Thursday: 12:00 -

1:00 - Sofia and Dominique (Or at 4:00?)

2:00

3:00 Jensen

4:00 Sofia and Dominique ?

5:00 Natalie MacKay(or at 6:30?)

5:30 Audrey

6:30 Natalie MacKay?

Friday:

Violin Master Class Lessons at the Church (on Belcher) Starting at 2:30 - If you want this option, Please schedule it with me.

Piano Master Class Lessons at the LDS Church on Belcher Road Starting at 3:30 - 4:30 IF YOU WANT THIS OPTION, Please schedule it with me.

Violin Group Class at 4:30 - 6 pm

3rd in the Series...Do you think of music practice as Boring?

Here is the third in the series of Practice Mistakes we all make, by Elizabeth Kane:

"

Music was never meant to be boring.
But for so many kids it is.

It's full of boring scales, boring songs, and even more boring practices that feel like a dreaded chore they'd rather put off on someone else to do at home.

Week after week, they command greater bribes from you in exchange for less work. They start feeling chained to music lessons, mindlessly checking off their assignment - sulking when you remind them of their commitment.
After a while learning how to play an instrument starts to feel less like an educational opportunity and more like a prison sentence...for everyone involved.
And that's a tragedy - one you can avoid.

Click here to keep reading

Having trouble with the link above?
Copy and paste this url into your web browser: http://www.practiceforparents.com/practice-mistakes-music-chore/
"

Here is the second in the series about practice mistakes we all make....
give it a read for some inspiration for this new year!

http://www.practiceforparents.com/practice-mistakes-wrong-time/

Now : Keep Calm and ...Practice!

I cannot believe that it has been since AUGUST that I last posted on this blog!
I am sorry!
I will try to do better  -
Here is a link to a thought for today:
http://www.practiceforparents.com/practice-mistakes-you-talk-at-them/

Let's all try to make the new year a great year for communicating WITH each other, not just talking AT each other!

Here are the Studio Policies for this Semester:

2012-13 POLICIES AND TUITION

Fall Semester – 16 lessons, beginning the third week of August, through the end of the semester in December.

· No lessons October 22-26: Nov. 19-24; Dec. 24- Jan 4

· 16 private 30 minute lessons, 6 group classes plus 2 performances $500 (or EITHER $100 per month for 5 months, Aug. through Dec OR pay four monthly payments from Sept through Dec., of $125 per month)

· 16 private 45 minute lessons, 6 group classes plus 2 performances $750 (or EITHER $150 per month for 5 months, Aug. through Dec. OR four monthly payments from Sept through Dec of $188 per month)

· 16 private 1 hour lessons and 6 group classes plus two performances - $1,000 (EITHER

$200 per month for 5 months, August through December OR $250 for 4 monthly payments Sept. through Dec.)

Spring Semester – 16 lessons, beginning January 9, 2011 through May 31, 2011.

· No lessons Jan 1-8; Jan Feb 25 - March 1; May 6 - 11

· 16 private 30 minute lessons, 6 group classes plus 1 recital - $500 (or $100 per month for 5 months, Jan. through May)

· 16 private 45 minute lessons, 6 group classes, plus 1 recital - $750 (or $150 per month for 5 months, Jan through May)

· 16 private 1 hour lessons and 6 group classes plus one recital - $1,000

(or $200 per month for 5 months Jan through May)

(Tuition includes lesson fees and group classes, performances, etc) Students joining the studio mid-semester will have a pro-rated tuition.

Missed classes and makeups are at the teacher’s discretion. Make- up lessons will not be given for less than 24 hour notice, unless the teacher grants exceptions for true emergencies. A Studio calendar will be posted with phone numbers so that students may schedule a lesson time ‘switch’ if they need to make changes due to conflicts with other important events. There will be two scheduled ‘make-up master class days’ during the year if a lesson is unable to be switched. If a make-up lesson is missed, the lesson is forfeited and may not be rescheduled again.

2013 Spring Semester Group Class Dates:

4:30 –6:30 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 3303 Belcher Road

Jan 18

Feb. 1 and 8

March 8 Master Class from 4 – 6:30 for make-ups (must be arranged with teacher)

March 15 and 29

April 19 and 26^th

May 3, 17^th and 24^th

Spring Recital either May 25 or May 31^st (To be determined by student response to these dates, etc.)