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Violin
Program
At the Montessori de Santa Cruz Charter
School we incorporate parent participation, as well as private & group
lessons to teach students in a fun, yet challenging environment. Parents
are an integral part of the violin & fiddle studies, attending private
lessons and becoming the "at-home" teacher. Students and their parents
are shown everything they need to know to start playing the violin.
Progress is as quick as each child's individual pace.
Children are encouraged to learn to play the fiddle as early as three
years old. Very young children learn to hold a 'pretend' violin & bow
first. When the basics have been mastered your child is ready for a real
violin. Thanks to generous grants and fundraising, the school provides a
violin for your child to use.
Listening to the violin repertoire is an important part of the training.
Children & their families include listening to the recommended CD's and
watching the DVD “Practice with Miss Jennifer”
daily. Children begin violin with the Suzuki Violin Method, book I and
advance to Fiddle repertoire with the “American Fiddle Method” and
Celtic fiddle from there.
All kindergartners at Montessori de Santa Cruz
get a year of group violin lessons, during school, once a week.
Additional classes are held during the after school program. Miss
Jennifer's private lessons & classes are fun way for very young
children, ages 3 & up, to begin violin and fiddle. For an additional
fee, each week, private students receive one 30-minute private lesson
and one 45-minute group lesson.
Our students are often seen performing, having regular annual concerts,
dances and festivals on the calendar.
Jennifer Sordyl has been teaching violin and fiddle, playing and
singing, professionally in Arizona since 1997. Growing up in the Midwest
with 8 brothers and sisters (all musicians) she began teaching in the
music store owned by her parents in Springfield, Illinois in 1983.
Fiddle music is the love of her life and she is a founder of the violin
program at Casa de Elisabeth Orphanage in Imuris, Sonora, Mexico.
http://www.casadeelizabeth.org/
In the summer you can find her teaching at the world renown Rocky
Mountain Fiddle Camp outside of Estes Park, Colorado.
http://www.rmfiddle.com
In addition to solo work, she currently plays in “The Jumping Chollas”
a contra dance band performing Celtic, New England and Old-time
selections, as well as performing for English Country Dances in Tucson.
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~alboyle/JumpingChollas.html
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