Heather Clemson Suzuki Teacher

Heather studied Viola and French Horn at the Royal Academy of Music and following a year`s teaching qualification got a job in Birmingham where she taught Suzuki Method in city schools for many years.

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Heather started studying to be a Suzuki teacher in London with British Suzuki shortly after starting her job in Birmingham with the music service and having completed the Suzuki teacher training course she was awarded a scholarship and travelled to Japan to study with Dr Suzuki for three months.

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Back in Birmingham she taught Suzuki Method in city schools for many years -becoming an Advanced Skills Teacher and then Head of Ensembles. She managed staff and ran events for seventy orchestras, ensembles, bands and groups both non auditioned and auditioned. Latterly Heather was fortunate enough to become Deputy Head of the music service in Birmingham.

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During this time as a Suzuki teacher Heather was appointed a Teacher Trainer and has for many years directed the British Suzuki Violin Teacher Training course in the Midlands.

 

She is also working at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire delivering a Suzuki pedagogy program for string students and is encouraged to see that a number of these young people are considering joining a training course in the future.

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Heather has a thriving private teaching studio and loves every aspect of being a Suzuki teacher and teacher trainer and hopes she can pass on the happiness and pleasure that music and teaching gives her every day……