The Well-Balanced Violin Studio

Introduction: Located in Albuquerque, The Well-Balanced Violin Studio offers Suzuki Early Childhood Education (SECE) classes, Suzuki Violin Lessons, and and other customized violin lessons for students ages 0-18. The studio's mission is to develop each student’s highest individual potential of instrumental playing, musicianship, and character. Every child can play the violin, and our aim is that every student can play the violin free from tension. Our goal is two-fold: to cultivate a life-long love of music in each student, and provide the life-long ability for each student to play the violin without pain or injury. Why Suzuki? The Suzuki Method is a natural and step by step approach to music education. While the method was designed to teach young children (ages 4+) to play the violin, students of all ages and levels have had great success with the Suzuki Method. The method was developed more than fifty years ago by Japanese violinist and philosopher, Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, after he realized that children all over the world learned to speak their native language from their mothers with ease. This ordinary process occurs thousands of times throughout the world every minute, and extraordinarily demonstrates the learning potential in all children. From his discoveries, Dr. Suzuki developed the mother-tongue approach to teaching the violin, based on the way children learn their native language from their mother. From his discovery that all children have the same potential to learn their native language, Dr. Suzuki had another revelation that talent and ability was not a gift at birth. By observing children learning to speak from their environment, Dr. Suzuki discovered that every child possesses the potential to learn every detail and nuance of their local dialect, showing that talent and ability can be learned and trained through their environment. From his discoveries, Dr. Suzuki called his method Talent Education, believing that talent was no accident, but learned and trained. In the Suzuki Method, character development of the child is equally important to learning about music and playing an instrument. Dr. Suzuki's dual purpose was to develop noble human beings and provide talent education, so that students can apply the concepts from the Suzuki Method to all learning.