Register for the 2021 Fall Workshop
November 6-7, 2021
Online - $25 per student, Volume 2 and Beyond
After a year off, we are excited to host the Fall Workshop once again!
This year, we are so fortunate to welcome some of North America’s premiere Suzuki teachers to work with our students: Rae Kate Shen, Jane Reed, Sachiko Isihara, Annette Lee and Nicole Wilton. It is a rare opportunity for us to learn from these well-respected Suzuki clinicians – a benefit of the online learning format – and we are proud to host this special event for our students.
What you can expect at the Fall Workshop:
Master Class: Students are placed in small online groups of 2-4 with a Master Teacher. Each student will perform their piece and receive a short lesson. Students and parents will also observe the other lessons during the sessions. Each master class typically lasts about 55 minutes.
Parent Talk: Master Teacher Jane Reed will present “Inspire the Desire to Learn” to ESPS parents in the afternoon on Sunday November 7, 2021. Jane is a popular and dynamic speaker, and we look forward to learning more about purposeful teaching and parenting.
Click here to register for the Fall Workshop
Meet Our Guest Clinicians:
Sachiko Isihara is a pianist by training, earning performance degrees from both the Juilliard School in New York and New England Conservatory in Boston. Sachiko Isihara has served as the Executive Director of Suzuki School of Newton for over 20 years. As a European Suzuki Association and Suzuki Association of the Americas certified piano teacher, she completed her Suzuki training in Matsumoto, Japan with Haruko Kataoka and long-term teacher training in Lyon, France with Colette Daltier. She is a frequently sought-after clinician for the Massachusetts Suzuki Festival and adjudicator for the South Shore Conservatory piano competition. She became a Suzuki Association of the Americas Teacher Trainer in 2008.
Prior to her appointment as Executive Director of Suzuki School of Newton in 1998, Sachiko served on the faculties of Ecole Koenig in Paris and Third Street Music School in New York. Sachiko also became the Director of the Suzuki by the Green summer piano institute in 2009. In 2018 and 2019, Sachiko received the Steinway Top Teacher award, and in 2018 also received the Milestone Award from the National Guild for Community Arts Education.
Annette Lee has been a Suzuki teacher since 1988. She received her BM in piano performance from Wheaton Conservatory and her MM in piano performance from the University of Michigan, where she was a fellowship student under Louis Nagle and Martin Katz. In 2015, she became a registered Teacher Trainer in Piano.
Ms. Lee has taught at the Music Institute of Chicago and DePaul University and is currently on faculty at the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis. At MacPhail, she is a Suzuki teacher, is a staff accompanist for the Suzuki Department and hosts Teacher Training for Piano. She is a frequent clinician at Suzuki Institutes, having taught in Stevens Point, WI, Blue Lake Institute, MI, Mt. Royal Academy, Calgary, Suzuki Piano Program in Saskatoon, the Wheaton Preparatory Department, IL, the Preucil School in IA, the Chicago Suzuki Institute, the Levine School in Washington, D.C. and at the Colorado Suzuki Institute.
Jane Reed is an internationally recognized Teacher Trainer for the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and a Suzuki Piano Educator. In addition, she serves as a facilitator for Parenting and Teaching the Love and Logic Way and the Right Question Institute. She dedicates herself to promoting finer education for students, teachers and parents by advocating deeper thinking, validated learning skills and building meaningful relationships between the child, parent and teacher.
Jane and her husband, Bob, founded Solutionary Insights, an educational business, which is dedicated to Nurturing Thinking Minds™. The unique signature of Solutionary Insights is the intertwining of the respect for the value of individuals, the belief that all are capable of excellence, and the resolve that fine and purposeful teaching and parenting develops outstanding abilities. Making a difference is her purpose!
Rae Kate Shen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance and a Master of Music in Accompanying Performance from the University of Southern California. Ms. Shen teaches piano and coordinates the Suzuki Program at the University of Redlands, and formerly at The Colburn School. She is also an adjunct faculty member teaching Piano and Ensemble classes as well as individual lessons at Riverside Community College. In addition, she is a registered teacher trainer with the Suzuki Association of the Americas and trains teachers in the Suzuki piano method on a year-round basis. Ms. Shen has studied extensively with one of the co-founders of the Suzuki Piano method - Dr. Haruko Kataoka, in the U.S. as well as many times in Matsumoto, Japan. A frequent guest clinician at numerous institutes and workshops throughout the United States, she is also an adjudicator for the Music Teachers’ Association of California, a founding teacher in the inaugural year of the Carnegie Hall Royal Conservatory Achievement Program, and a concertizing pianist for the Marina Chamber Ensemble.
Nicole Wilton has taught in Saskatoon for over 29 years through her private Suzuki piano studio as well as being Owner/Director of the Community Music Education Program, an early childhood music conservatory that she managed for many years at the University of Saskatchewan and now privately as Wilton Academy of Music. She holds a Master of Education degree, an ARCT in piano pedagogy, a Bachelor of Arts degree and is one of only five accredited Suzuki Teacher Trainers in Canada. A frequent clinician, adjudicator and presenter at institutes and conferences, Nicole is also a proud mom to 3 girls.