Thereafter, having developed the repertoire for the Suzuki Piano Method, she has served as Director of the Piano Department at the Talent Education Research Institute in Matsumoto, where she continues to teach students and to train teachers from Japan and from around the world.

Shinichi Suzuki’s Talent Education Institute, where she began to research piano pedagogy based upon Dr. Kataoka moved to Matsumoto City in 1955 to serve as accompanist in Dr. Graduating from Sacred Heart Girls’ High School in Tokyo in 1945, she continued piano studies with Haruko Fujita. Born in Tokyo in 1927, she began the study of piano at the age of six with the late Yoshimune Hirata. Haruko Kataoka is the co-founder of the Suzuki Piano Method. Part VI: Bringing Book 1 to Performance Levelĭr. Part V: Difficult Points in the Book 1 Pieces: The Twinkle Variations Repeated Note Legato Independence of Hands Balance Between Melody & Accompaniment

Part IV: Book 1: General Considerations: The Twinkle Variations Right Hand Melodies Left Hand and Hands Together Part III: The Suzuki Method is a Method Which Develops Ability: The Twinkle Variations Part II: When the Lessons Begin: The Bow Proper Seating Finger Numbers The Twinkle Variations Part I: Instructions to Parents Before the Initial Lesson Under the title: The Method of Teaching Beginners. To Winter 1995 (Volume 7, #4) and in the Suzuki Pianoīasics Foundation News, March-April 1996 (Volume 1, #1) Piano Basics Newsletter from Summer 1991 (Volume 2, #3) Of a series of articles which originally appeared in the This is the online publication of the printed edition of Piano Basics Foundation, 1487 Telegraph Road, Bellingham, Washington, USA 98226ĭepartment of History, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA 27858įAX (252) 328-6774 email: to Teach Beginners, Copyright 1996, by Haruko Kataoka Translated from the Japanese by Mitsuo FurumachiBook edited by Karen Hagberg

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