NURTURING PERSONAL EXCELLENCE
Ottawa Suzuki Strings
Our School
Ottawa Suzuki Strings is a non-profit music school that offers instruction in violin and guitar to children from ages 3 to 18 years. Our teachers nurture strong parent-teacher-student relationships, celebrating achievements large and small. To complete a full musical education, students participate in both private and group instruction – creating a community of support for all our family members.
ANNOUNCING OUR 2025 OSS FACULTY CONCERT JUNE 21!
To all parents, teachers, and friends of Ottawa Suzuki Strings,
We are very pleased to invite you to a special fundraising concert, featuring our teachers, to be held at McKay United Church, 39 Dufferin Road, on June 21, at 2pm. This is an excellent opportunity to turn the tables and for you and your child or children to see and hear some of your teachers perform, including Nathan Bredeson, Sofia Fernandes, Zane Liang, Ryan Vis, Sarah Williams and Judy Ginsburg. Our students can see where they are headed! The music will be about 1 hour in duration and will be followed by a reception.
Fundraising is currently very important for OSS because, despite our best efforts, we have not yet recovered fully from the pandemic and rebuilt the enrollment necessary for long-term viability. The good news is that OSS has recruited some fine teachers, and we now have the capacity for a healthy school enrolment.
We hope that all, or at least most, families will be able to attend. We would like to fill the church, so please invite your friends and family – especially families who have children who could join our school community.
Admission is by donation, and a donation box will be available at the door prior to the concert. Funds raised will go towards the ongoing health of our school. Whatever donation you are comfortable with is welcome. OSS is a CRA registered non-profit, and tax receipts will be provided.
This concert is several months in the future, but we are hoping to reach friends of the school before they make other commitments. Please mark your calendars, and please ask your potential guests to mark their calendars as well.
Yours truly,
Dan Harrel
OSS President
About Suzuki
The Suzuki Method is based on the principle that all children possess musical ability which can be developed and enhanced within a nurturing environment. Children learn to speak their own language with relative ease; when this same natural learning process is applied, musical skills can be acquired successfully. Suzuki referred to this process as the Mother Tongue Method and to the whole system of pedagogy as Talent Education.
“Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens, noble human beings. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play themselves, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.” – Shinichi Suzuki
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Are you interested in starting or continuing your child in Suzuki music instruction?
To start please read our faculty biographies. Then contact our School Director Judy Ginsburg who will help you choose and contact a teacher in your area. Judy may be reached at admin@ottawasuzukistrings.ca or by phone at (613) 369-4376.
To complete the registration process please submit the Registration and Volunteer Forms.
Ottawa Suzuki Strings depends on volunteer power! We thank you in advance for volunteering (4 hours or more per year).
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We would like to recognize the Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation, on whose traditional unceded territory we operate. We gratefully acknowledge them as the past, present and future stewards of this land.
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