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New This Fall : Suzuki Violin and Eurythmics!
August 6 , 2007
Exciting developments are on the horizon for the Academy this fall. Not only is the new facility making fast progress toward completion, but the academic offerings at the Academy are being enhanced as well.This fall, the Academy includes Suzuki violin instruction and Eurhythmics in its offerings with the addition of Corinne Erb to the faculty.
Corinne Erb, from Lancaster County, studied violin at the Academy with Michael T. Jamanis, participating in the Academy's first string orchestra. At the Academy, she was a recipient of a Mary Ann Fiery Scholarship. She went on to receive her B.A. degree in Music and French from Lebanon Valley College, then continued her music studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) where she received her Master of Music degree with a concentration in Suzuki Pedagogy. Since 2004, she has taught in the Suzuki programs at SIUE and Webster University in St. Louis, taking part in the planning and teaching of Suzuki workshops at those schools. Ms. Erb has also attended the Carnegie Mellon Dalcroze Workshop.
“I'm very excited to return to Lancaster and join the Academy faculty,” says Ms. Erb. “The addition of a Suzuki violin program at the Academy will bring more musical opportunities to families with young children in the area.”
Suzuki instruction is a method that models the process of language acquisition, with children starting at a very early age, learning aurally, just as they learn to speak by listening to their parents. Suzuki students attend both private and group lessons. The underlying philosophy of Suzuki instruction is that all children are capable of developing musical skills just as they develop language skills.
Eurhythmics is a system that teaches concepts of rhythm, structure and musical expression using movement. Emile Jaques Dalcroze (1865-1950), a French/Swiss composer, developed the system as a professor at the Geneva Conservatory.
The Pennsylvania Academy of Music is a non-profit pre-collegiate institution dedicated to the musical advancement of its students. Founded in 1990, the Academy attracts students from an immediate nine-county area as well as from around the world, who study disciplines ranging from instrumental, chamber music, orchestra, opera and vocal performance to music composition and theory, improvisation, accompanying ,jazz and recording. The Academy has a widely accomplished international faculty and is one of only 12 autonomous pre-collegiate music schools in the country accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
