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SIB is the only Suzuki program in New England to be specifically authorized by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki himself. Donald Becker has performed as a soloist at the summer school and the national teacher’s conference of the Talent Education Research Institute (TERI) in Japan. He founded the Massachusetts Suzuki Festival, the Suzuki Association of Massachusetts, and brought the International Suzuki Conference to Massachusetts in 1979. Before Mr. Becker’s studies at the TERI, he trained with Ms. Anastasia Jempelis and Francis Tursi at the Eastman School of Music as a masters candidate of viola performance. He also studied at the summer program of the Kodály Center of America, and still teaches the Kodaly music classes at the Suzuki Institute of Boston. In addition to the Suzuki and Kodály methods, studied the Alexander Technique in Boston for over three years. Mr. Becker speaks and can teach in Japanese. 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He has regularily performed and held memberships with the Lima Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Theatre of Toledo Orchestra, Sono Novo Ensemble, and served as the principal cellist of the Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra. https://www.suzukiboston.com/brandi-main daily 0.75 2020-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ed2da8e9f975268758088/1601397209834-H03MCI968VFKX7SXJ8CR/Attach12446_20190613_122740.jpg Brandi Main Bio - Brandi Main; Violin & Piano M.M. Bowling Green State University, 2018 B.M. University of Puget Sound, 2016 Staff Training at Suzuki Institute of Boston (SIB): -Violin Book 1-2 Ms. Main has taught violin and piano in her private studio and for the Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Tacoma Youth Symphony. She was part of Bowling Green State University's Graduate String Quartet Assistantship, concertmaster of the Bowling Green Philharmonia, and regularly performed concerts on behalf of the university. Ms. Main studied and performed at the IES Vienna Music Program, the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival, and as a Festival Scholar at the Heartland Chamber Music Festival. https://www.suzukiboston.com/donald-becker daily 0.75 2020-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f5ed2da8e9f975268758088/1601858914090-6YUKY69925U134JHKWSH/IMG_1114.JPEG Donald Becker Bio - Donald Becker; Violin, Viola, Piano, & Kodály Class M.M., Eastman School of Music, 1974 B.M., Ohio State University School of Music, 1972 Teacher’s diploma, Talent Education Research Institute (Matsumoto, Japan), 1986 Mr. Becker took Suzuki Method teacher training course with Anastasia Jempelis at the Eastman School of Music. He studied with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki and Ms. Yuko Mori for over three years in Japan and supervises the violin teachers at the Suzuki Institute of Boston in using Dr. Suzuki’s teaching points. He holds a teacher’s diploma from the Talent Education Research Institute in Matsumoto, Japan, where he performed as a soloist at the summer school and the national teacher’s conference. He studied at the summer program of the Kodály Center of America and teaches the Kodaly music classes at the Suzuki Institute of Boston. He studied the Alexander Technique in Boston for over three years. He speaks and can teach in Japanese. In Japan he created a series of study tapes for the 100 haikus by Kobayashi Issa that are taught in the Talent Education program in Japan. He used these to learn all 100 himself from memory and could perform them with the Japanese drill tapes. He has recorded an extensive series of practice recordings including the ABCs of Duets by Janice Tucker Rhoda. 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