Introductions
Suzuki Training News

June 2010: The BSI office has moved! Please note our new address and telephone numbers:

Administrator:
Minette Joyce
Tel: 020 3176 4170

Music Shop orders
Tel: 020 3176 4172 
Fax: 020 3176 4175

Membership Enquiries
Tel: 020 3176 4170

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Suzuki and non-Suzuki events and websites you might be interested in…        

Please also see our 'Courses and Events' page under Children and under Parents.                                                                                                                                                  

littlecellist.com is a colourful new website specially launched for young people learning the cello. It has links to courses and events that young cellists might be interested in, as well as games and puzzles and a space to send in your own compositions, jokes and artwork. You can also find out about the lives of famous cellists!

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Raise Funds for the BSI When You Shop and Search Online

easyfundraising is a shopping directory listing some of your favourite online stores including Amazon, NEXT, Debenhams, John Lewis, Toys R Us, HMV and over 500 other top name stores. Whenever you shop with any one of them using the links provided on the easyfundraising site, you'll generate a free donation for us of up to 15% of the purchase price every time! It really is that simple!

It doesn't cost a penny more to shop and raise funds in this way. In fact you can even SAVE MONEY as many retailers give exclusive discounts, special offers and even 'e-vouchers' when you shop through the easyfundraising site.

All you need to do is register for free at http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/britishsuzuki and use easyfundraising every time you shop online.

easysearch

You can also raise funds for us every time you search the Web - with easysearch, a search engine with a difference!

When you search with easysearch, you'll raise funds for us with every search you make! Make 10 searches a day and you could raise £20- £25 a year - or more - for us, just by switching to easysearch.

What's more, easysearch combines the strengths of several search engines together - Yahoo!, MSN Live Search, Ask.com and many more - making it a 'super' search engine! easysearch tracks down the most relevant and accurate results from across the Web, which means you'll find what you are looking for quickly and easily every time - in one 'easy' search.

Please set our unique easysearch page - http://britishsuzuki.easysearch.org.uk - as your homepage and use it every time you search the Web.

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Suzuki in Piano Professional

A special Suzuki issue of EPTA's termly magazine, Piano Professional, has been published in January 2007.  The publication contains articles covering different aspects of the Suzuki approach, including Suzuki in schools and working with children with special needs, as well as debates on controversial topics such as nurture and nature,

parental involvement, sound before symbol, and group versus individual lessons.  To view these articles, written by a dozen Suzuki teachers, parents and children, click on the link below.

EPTA Piano Professional, January 2007, edited by Jenny Macmillan

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GARY MORLEY
Hon. Treasurer

Gary Morley is currently three times a Suzuki parent.  His eldest two daughters (aged 7 and 8) are learning the piano whilst his son (aged 4) is learning the cello.  His youngest (and last!) child (aged 2) is also showing enthusiasm for music - she has no choice!

Gary is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Acountants in England and Wales and a partner in MRI Moores Rowland LLP.  He is also a member of the Securities Institute.  Formerly he has been Financial Director of two quoted companies.

He is an author and speaks regularly across the UK and abroad on private company corporate finance.

For 9 years he has been a volunteer mentor for The Prince's Trust and was recently invited with his wife to Buckingham Palace to meet Prince Charles.

Originally from Yorkshire, now based in London, Gary is a Freeman of the City of London and Liveryman.

MINETTE JOYCE
Administrator

Minette started her career in artist management, launching a small independent classical label and achieving government sponsorship for a music education workshop project in regional schools.

She worked closely for many years with the violinist Vanessa-Mae, proudly following her meteoric rise from child prodigy to world-wide recognition. She co-ordinated Vanessa-Mae's management, personal representation, office administration and the organisation of international events and live performances, before moving on to develop her growing interest in marketing.

She studied at Thames Valley University, becoming a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, while setting up the music side of a small marketing and public relations consultancy and working as a freelancer on press and media campaigns for a diverse range of artists and bands. 

BARBARA PARHAM
Director of Violin

Barbara was born and brought up in Beverley, East Yorkshire, where she still lives and teaches. She started to learn the violin in school at the age of 11, and after a year of lessons, changed to the viola.

After leaving school, Barbara studied viola at the Royal Academy of Music in London, gaining the GRSM (Graduate Diploma), the LRAM and ARCM diplomas in Viola Teaching, and the Professional Certificate of the Royal Academy. This was followed by a year at Leeds University where she studied for a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education.
From 1983 to 1986 Barbara studied on the British Suzuki Institute teacher-training course, after which she was awarded a scholarship to study for 3 months with Dr. Suzuki in Matsumoto, Japan.

Barbara has taught in state schools, private schools, and now teaches privately at home. She has taught on numerous workshops all over England, and also in Scotland, Ireland, Guernsey, Belgium, and Holland.

As Director of the Violin teacher-training course, Barbara is hoping to continue the excellent work done by her predecessors, Felicity Lipman and Alison Apley, and to strive for the highest possible standard of Suzuki teaching throughout the country.