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The ISA thanks Claus Kanneworff for his invaluable assistance in making these videos available for the ISA Online Archive. His father, Per Kanneworff, provides the historical background for these rare live videos of Dr. Suzuki’s early teaching in Europe.
“In Easter 1981, the Danish Suzuki Institute held an international Suzuki workshop in Elsinore, Denmark. In this connection, Dr. Shinichi Suzuki was invited to give lessons.
The Director of the Danish Suzuki Institute, Mrs. Tove Detreköy, thought that we would have an opportunity to document Dr. Suzuki’s work with the children. Having followed the system as a “Suzuki dad” through several years, I was asked by Mrs. Detreköy to make a video documentation of the lessons. At that time, I had no prior experience with filming, and later cut-and-paste and video editing. However, I was persuaded to try my best as Dr. Suzuki’s visit probably would be the only chance for us.
We rented a VHS-video camera and a VHS-video recorder. During the lessons, we managed to make some twenty hours of camera recordings. Combined with our own VHS-video recorder we – that was Tove Detreköy, Béla Detreköy and I – copied and arranged the recordings into a relatively logical order with this very primitive equipment. Also, we filtered out and collected Dr. Suzuki’s teaching points.”
Per Kanneworff
December 2024
May 2024 – International Suzuki Association Report
The ISA Violin Committee has been diligent in making corrections where necessary and additions as deemed useful to the International Edition of the Suzuki Violin School in cooperation with the editors at Alfred Music, and in accordance with suggestions made in a meeting of Violin Teacher Trainers attending the 3rd International Suzuki Teacher Trainers Convention, October 2023 in Matsumoto, Japan.
For the full report click here.