North Florida Suzuki School Represented at All-State 2024

North Florida Suzuki violin students Ethan Cannon (11th grade) and Pavit Patel (8th grade) represented their school, Florida State University Schools, at the 2024 Florida All-State orchestras in Tampa this past weekend. The 2024 Florida Music Educators Conference which hosts the All-State ensembles is one of the largest music education professional development events in the…

North Florida Suzuki Guitar Students Featured at Florida Guitar Festival

  Last weekend’s Florida Guitar Festival drew competitors andclinicians from all around the country to Tallahassee. Prominently featured in the opening concert and masterclasses were our advanced guitar students from MLE’s North Florida Suzuki School. Students Antonia Nowels, Kabeer Aggarwal, Simon Joos, Jemmy Qin, Donald Hinchman, Terry Lin, and Himank Chhaya performed in masterclasses for…

Introducing the North Florida Suzuki School

About ten years ago, we started Tallahassee’s first Suzuki violin program with three young PreTwinklers and their wonderful parents. Today, we have the region’s only Suzuki school with an enrollment of about sixty students and four teaching staff who have trained with and are registered with the Suzuki Association of the Americas.     With…

MLE Violin Day 2022

MLE was excited to host our annual Violin Day on March 9th at the MLE Studio. Current and visiting violin students participated in games and group classes with our instructors, Dr. Erin Hedrick and Hunter Sanchez. Our violin student parents attending a presentation by visiting Suzuki teacher, Elma Sanabria. Ms. Sanabria, a native of Honduras, holds…