Course Requirements and Information

Daily sessions include lectures and videotapes, repertoire study, technical study, observation of the Suzuki Student Institute, individual and informal chamber music. The schedule is intensive and includes some evening sessions.

All participants are expected to prepare the music in the books to be studied to the point of fluent performance — preferably from memory. The instructor reserves the right to change a participant’s status to that of auditor if he or she is unprepared.

The short-term courses are approved by the Suzuki Association of the Americas and follow the sequence of study developed by the Teacher Education Committee. SAA strongly recommends that the books be taken in sequence through book 4. In certain cases waiver of this condition may be considered by the course instructor. Teacher trainees must hold active membership in the SAA.

Teachers may enroll for core courses as either participants or auditors and may enroll for only one core course per time period listed. One course equals 1.5 hours of graduate credit. All teacher participants must provide their own instruments.

Participant (for graduate credit or noncredit): Participants have the privilege of full participation in the course and perform the repertoire being studied as part of the class routine. Core course participants must submit by May 22 a high quality tape-recording of their performance of the following:

For courses on book lA, lB, or 2, two major pieces from book 3

For courses on book 3 or higher, two major pieces or movements from the next-higher book

Participants from a prior year at the Ithaca institute whose tape requirement remains the same may have the tape submission waived. No tape is required for Integrating Suzuki Techniques with the Traditional Public School String Program or Suzuki Practicum.

Auditor (noncredit only): The auditor category is designed for those teachers who do not have the technical facility to perform the material included in the book being studied. Auditors do not perform as participants during class sessions