| Registration is open for the 2021-2022 Ottawa Suzuki Strings (OSS) school year. The OSS music school year of 2020-2021 was a year of adjustment, flexibility, creativity, resourcefulness, and continuous musical growth!!! Each and every member affiliated with the school - faculty, students, parents, and board members - demonstrated resilience, creativity, and cooperation to achieve the musical education goals. We look forward to returning to in-person private lessons, group classes, events, and community concerts this coming school year while continuing to follow all Public Health Guidelines. REGISTER NOW! |
Private Lessons, Group Classes, and Performance Opportunities
Students get a broad and exciting music experience, and some distinguish themselves competing in local and provincial competitions and have also had the opportunity to perform in other Canadian cities and overseas.
Learn, Play, Perform
Ottawa Suzuki Strings is a music school providing violin, viola, cello, guitar, flute, and theory instruction using the Suzuki Method. Our experienced faculty have music degrees and are trained in Suzuki pedagogy. Students range from very young "Twinklers" to advanced students in Stellae Boreales.
Career Opportunities at OSS
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Please contact the managing director who can put you in touch with one of our faculty, or click here to register.
For enquiries please call the managing director on 613 369 4376
Registered Charity Number: 84838 8252 RR0001
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Outreach
July 16, 2017: Ottawa Suzuki String's Instrument Petting Zoo at Music & Beyond Ottawa Family Music Expo
Stellae Boreales Concerts
Ottawa Suzuki Strings’ advanced violin performance group, Stellae Boreales, was founded in 2004 by Rosemarie Klimasko to provide a continuum of opportunities for the school’s most advanced and committed musicians. Musicianship development is core to the program, and activities for both social and musical growth are provided as part of the group’s annual calendar.
For many years, Rosemarie was a professional freelance violinist in Toronto. She played for eleven years with the Pro Arte String Orchestra, and was a member of the Palm Court violin/flute/piano trio for several years. In 1986, she moved to Ottawa, and co-founded SuzukiMusic. Her active schedule includes teaching a large class of private students, teaching group classes, and conducting a youth orchestra for the National Capital Music Academy. Her career has seen many of her students achieve distinguished music awards at local, provincial and national levels, several moving on to prestigious music schools, both in Canada and the United States. She has been a clinician at several Suzuki and CAMMAC camps and has adjudicated at Kiwanis Music Festivals in Ontario. Rosemarie is based in the Nepean/Barrhaven area of Ottawa and is very fond of her feline companion.
In 2012, the young musicians travelled to Washington D.C., where they performed with the Peabody Institute ensemble. The 2013 season closed with a highly successful concert tour of Cuba. In 2014, Stellae Boreales had the honour of being invited to participate as featured performers at the Suzuki Association of the Americas Conference in Minneapolis.
Ottawa Suzuki Strings gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Ottawa Community Foundation
