Our North Florida Suzuki School violin and guitar students kicked off the summer with our annual Pizza Playdown group recital. A “play down” recital, a format unique to Suzuki schools, begins with the most advanced students performing first. With each successive piece, students from earlier levels join in, gradually building the ensemble until all…
Congratulations to our graduating senior, Ethan Cannon, who was selected to participate in the Atlanta Chamber Music Festival at Emory University in early June. In addition to playing first violin in a small string quartet, Ethan was also concertmaster of the ACMF Symphony Orchestra. Ethan will be pursuing a degree in violin performance at Valdosta…
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…
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…
Congratulations to our five guitar students who participated in the 2022 North Florida Strings Festival. This annual festival, sponsored by the American Strings Teachers Association, is an opportunity for young string students to perform for and receive feedback from an adjudicator. All five guitar students from MLE received Level 1 ratings and three…
7th grade violin student, Karan Komuroji, has won a position in the Indo-European Youth Orchestra, scheduled to perform in Budapest, Hungary in August 2022. Karan has been part of the Suzuki violin program at MLE since 2015, where he studies with Natasha Marsalli. He is also a member of the Tallahassee Youth Orchestras and plays…
MLE violin students Sreyas Narayan and Chinonso Okoli performed in the 2022 FMEA Honors Orchestras Florida Music Educator Conference, held in Tampa, Florida. The FMEA Honors Orchestras consist of the top middle and high school orchestra students in the state of Florida. Students are selected for the ensembles based on the nominations of their school orchestra…
4/11/22 EDIT: Our next session of Preschool Violin at TCS is scheduled to begin April 21st. Music Lessons Express is excited to announce a new Preschool Violin class in partnership with Trinity Catholic School in Tallahassee. Preschool Violin is an introduction to the fundamentals of violin playing specially designed for students ages 4-6 and their parents.…
EDIT: Preschool Violin Level I for Fall 2021 is open for registration. Classes begin 9/13/21. Music Lessons Express is excited to bring our wildly successful Suzuki violin program to GentleHands, Tallahassee’s premier play space and resource hub for young children and their parents. GentleHands is the perfect location for students and parents to work with…
We are pleased to announce that all nine competitors representing Music Lessons Express received a Gold Certificate, the highest ranking, at the 2020 North Florida Strings Festival! The North Florida Strings Festival is an annual event sponsored by the American String Teachers Association and provides students of string instruments a chance to perform solo and…