WHAT JOANNA OFFERS

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SUZUKI VIOLIN, IRISH AND IMPROV FIDDLE FOR KIDS

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Joanna offers children ages 3+ a Suzuki violin, fiddle, and improvisation experience that helps children develop their musical abilities and character. Children and their parents attend one private lesson per week and at one group class each week. Children are expected to practice with their parents at home and listen to the reference recordings daily. Learn More

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MUSIC CLASSES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN

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In these Suzuki Early Childhood Education classes, children, their caregivers, and certified teachers explore musical concepts within a nurturing environment. Through critical parental involvement, modeling, and encouragement, children will participate in vocal, instrumental, movement, and rhythmic activities that create cognitive, communicative, and social development. The greater Suzuki community believes that ability develops early, and that success breeds success. By participating, your child will be in an environment where they can obtain thorough mastery, developing their musical abilities and, more importantly, their character. These classes are offered through the Baltimore Irish Music School at St. Luke's Church (for children ages 0-4) and through The School of Musical Traditions at their building in Takoma Park (for children ages 0-2 and 3-5). Learn more

 

SUZUKI VIOLIN, IRISH, AND IMPROV FIDDLE FOR ADULTS

 

Joanna facilitates adult learning in various ways (online/in-person, group/individual). Please contact Joanna if you are interested. 

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GUEST INSTRUCTOR

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Whether you are representing a private studio, a music school, a public school, or a festival, Joanna would be happy to discuss teaching a workshop as a guest. Workshops she's taught include beginning fiddle, intermediate/advanced fiddle, Irish Music 101, Irish tune composition, and The Great Groove Band, a kid's pick-up band in the folk genre. 

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JOANNA'S EXPERIENCE

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Joanna has been playing the violin since she was three years old and has been teaching individual Suzuki violin and Irish fiddle lessons online and in person since 2020. She has been trained to teach Suzuki Violin Units 1 - 4, and has also taken Every Child Can!; Suzuki Early Childhood Education Stage 1 and Stage 2; Play!: Exploring Creativity, Developing Autonomy, and Finding Meaning in Music Lessons; Inclusive Group Class Teaching, and Psychology, Music, and Teaching, through the Suzuki Association of the Americas. She also has training in Creativity Ability Development from its founder, Alice Kanack, which teaches instruments through improvisation. Joanna has led workshops at The Philadelphia Folk Festival, The Baltimore Irish Trad Fest, The Maryland Irish Festival, The Philadelphia Ceili Group Festival, Spring Thing, The Irish Weekend (in Ismaning, Germany), and Fiddlemania. She currently teaches privately at her studio as well as for The Baltimore Irish Music School and The School of Musical Traditions. 

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