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Teacher Training Course

 .....NEWS.......

In recent years many European teachers have requested information about the CML and are currently interested in attending training courses.

The Musical Garden Association plans to organize training courses for teachers of Children's Music Lab in Europe in 2010.

(two or three intense workshops, in Italy or in another Nation)

If you are interested in attending our courses please contact us: m.messina@musicalgarden.it
 

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Teacher Training Course 

Musical Garden - Children’s Music Laboratory

The course is open to musicians and teachers.

It has proofed in time to be a useful teaching tool for teachers.

For those who have founded courses of Suzuki Instruments and for those interested in personally acquiring skills in teachings music at pre-school age.

The course, if not taking place in Italy, involves a total of six training weekends within a year or a year and half.

At the end of the course, each teacher will need to undertake an examination.

To qualify for examination participants of the Musical Garden – Children Music Laboratory training course, should attend all scheduled training weekends .

Course requirements

•          The knowledge of texts concerning the philosophy and the Suzuki Method and of the required reading  materials. (Playing like speaking)

•          The preparation of two lessons outlines for the first and the second period of the academic year.

•          To present a lesson of about 20 minutes including different exercises for instrumental preparation .

•          A round table viva voce, where all trainees exchange experiences and discuss projects carried out during the course and  show their knowledge of Musical Garden topics.

•          At the exam should be presented an essay on a topic chosen by the candidate (agreed by the teacher trainer).

•          The candidates will also show performance skills with the CML repertory, by singing, playing piano, transposing or adapting texts, time signatures, etc.

In successive years, the trainees will be invited to keep frequent contact with the teacher trainer to keep up to date with recent evolutions of the materials

For courses not taking place in Italy, it would be ideal to start a small pilot group of children, to test the work and to develop the skills, while maintaining contact with the teacher trainers.

The course with the children could start after the first three weekends with an active collaboration between the registered teachers.

It would also be ideal, during one of the first weekends, to have a meeting for translating  the texts of the CML  songs in the language of this country  and to find other useful songs to develop rhythm, singing capabilities and musical theory.

The Training Course of Musical Garden in Italy is located near the Suzuki Centers of Torino, Rome and Casagiove (CE). 

In other countries the Course can be carried out near Suzuki  centres, schools and associations that consider organizing a Course of Musical Garden – Children’s Music Laboratory.

The Course can be organized exclusively by teacher trainers authorized by the founders of the Musical Garden: prof. Elena Enrico and prof. Marco Messina.

ELENA ENRICO

was born in Turin in February 1954.  She began at six years old the study of music graduating very young in piano.

Already in the years of conservatory she becomes closer to the theatrical world attending courses of song and performance and, in 1976 together with Georgio Faletti and Fulvio Accorsero she forms the group cabaret named “Topi d’ Albergo” (Mice’s Hotel) working abroad and Italy until the following year.

In 1977 she wins the competition for assisting to the direction of RAI (Italian Broadcasting Corporation) of Turin, collaborating with producers such as Anton Giulio Maiano, Edmo Fenoglio, Massimo Scaglione etc. and actors such as Alberto Lupo, Arnoldo Foa’, Aurora Cancian, Toni Bortorelli, Paolo Giuranna etc.

She continues in parallel with this her theatrical activity both as an actress and a singer; she composes musical pieces and cuts a LP for “Fonit Cetra” for a radio soundtrack.

Interested to the teaching appearance and education of music, she leaves her employment with the radio to deepen her research and develop early methodologies teaching of music.

She is still active in the formation and in the updating of teachers (Suzuki Method) and elaborates personally in training journeys of education of talent and recovery of children whom are handicap bearers.

Together with her son Francesco, composer and film maker, she forms in 2004 the house of independent production “Fregoli Dreams Factory” releasing teaching films, documentaries and and short-films. With the script “Oltrepassaggio” they receive the special mention to the competition “Script Production 2004” and with the short-film “All in the past”, the selection to the “Lucania Film Festival 2005”.

Her latest cinematographic production “Music is the angel of all the children” was released in occasion of the Suzuki World Convention 2006 in Turin.

MARCO MESSINA

graduates in flute at the “Conservatorio di Musica S.Pietro a Majella” (Naples) in 1990 under the guidance of Maestro Francesco Bianchi and then pursued his studies with Marianne Eckstein in Rome and Mario Ancillotti through the music school of  Fiesole.

As a flutist, he won  several national competitions and worked with numerous orchestras.

As a flutist, he plays concerts in Italy, Russia, Austria, Germany, Moldavia, Romania, Albania, Tunisia, France, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Spain.

Great importance and relevance to Marco Messina’s career is his devotion to the teaching of music.

In April and in September 2006, he was invited, as an Italian Quality Expert in music teaching, to participate in seminars for the project of the European Community “Leonardo da Vinci”, a project that envisages  the development of creativity in children.

Marco Messina, “Suzuki father”, founder of the Centre Suzuki “Crescere con la Musica” in Casagiove (Italy), teacher of CML (Children’s Music Laboratory) for 12 years, teacher / founder of the Musical Garden – CML, teacher of flute Suzuki, and currently national secretary of I.S.I.( Italian Suzuki Institute), responsible for the international development of the CML programme and for the training of the new Musical Garden – CML teachers.

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