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Suzuki Recorder began in the late 1960�s and early 1970�s with Ms. Katherine White�s exploration and experimentation with Suzuki techniques in studio and classroom settings. In 1974 Ms. Katherine White was invited by Dr. Suzuki and Toshio Takahashi, the head teacher trainer, to participate in lessons and to study the Suzuki Method�, then called Talent Education. In 1976 she received her Certificate of Graduation from the Talent Education Institute in Matsumoto after studying with Dr. Suzuki, Toshio Takahashi, and others. |
| �What did I do in Japan? A lot of rewarding observation, individual and group lessons, classes in musical expression, played at weekly Monday concerts� a very important part of my training also included Baroque Performance studies in the Tokyo area with professors who had received Dutch Early Music degrees from various conservatories. A workshop with Walter van Hauwe at Mt. Fuji was another memorable experience. I loved performing in Masumoto, Tokyo, and Kyoto with very diverse international musicians. In the USA, performance practice studies continued at the University of Minnesota and at the exciting Oberlin Conservatory Baroque Performance Institutes.� |  |
Upon her return to the United States in 1977, she continued to develop the method and curriculum to teach the recorder and the oboe using Dr. Suzuki�s Mother Tongue approach. In 1980 she went back to Japan for a second visit to the Talent Education Institute.
Since 1977 she has trained many International Suzuki Recorder teachers in Apprentice (Independent Study) and Short-Term Teacher Training Courses, making it possible for teachers to register their units with the Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA). Ms. White has also given teacher training to an International Community at Culford School outside London, UK. Teachers, trained by her, have taken the Suzuki Method Recorder School� to many communities around the world where successful programs have been established.
In 1994 Ms. Katherine White directed the recording of CDs and cassette-tapes, featuring Marion Verbruggen, soprano and alto recorders; Mary Springfels, viola da gamba; and Arthur Haas: harpsichord. The part and accompaniment books for Volumes 1 through 4 of the Suzuki Method Recorder School� and the companion recordings are published by Warner Brothers Publications, Inc (now Alfred Publishing Co., Inc). These materials became available for purchase in the spring of 1997.
In early 2005, after years of hard work, the Suzuki Method� Recorder Repertoire Committee finalized the order and selection of pieces for Volumes 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the Suzuki Method� Recorder School. In April 2005, performances of those pieces by Marion Verbruggen, recorders, Arthur Haas, harpsichord, and Mary Springfels, viola da gamba, were recorded. The two CDs (Vols. 5 & 6, and Vols. 7 & 8) are now available for purchase and Ms. Katherine White, the originator of the Suzuki Method� Recorder School, along with students and other teachers, are now eagerly awaiting the publication of the books of Volumes 5 through 8.
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