Sarah Liv Lane

Suzuki Piano Studio

ABOUT

The Teacher

A pianist and teacher, Sarah lives in Humboldt Park in the city of Chicago. She began Suzuki piano lessons when she was six years old and completed the Suzuki repertoire through Book 7 by the time she graduated high school. From a very young age Sarah has wanted to teach the Suzuki method so that she could pass on her love of music to others.

Sarah earned her Bachelor of Arts in Ethnomusicology with a piano emphasis from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and in 2016 began her formal Suzuki pedagogical training. She trained under the renowned Caroline Fraser at Holy Names University in California, and plans to continue her training in the years to come. Sarah's concentration is early childhood musical education and music reading.

Besides teaching piano, Sarah loves to spend time with her husband exploring Chicago, baking, knitting, and reading.

“Our aim needs to be the nurturing of children. The moment we rigidly convince ourselves, “Education is what we’re after,” we warp a child’s development. First foster the heart, then help the child acquire ability. This is indeed nature’s proper way.”

Shinichi Suzuki

Suzuki Philosophy

As a former Suzuki student, Sarah believes that Suzuki Piano helped form not only her musical abilities, but also self-confidence, patience, integrity, and perseverance.

She believes that the teacher partners with the parent to create an environment of musical education, encouragement, learning, and fun, catered to each individual child.

Every child has talent. With proper teaching and a nurturing learning environment, children can learn to not only play the piano, but find joy and confidence in their accomplishments.

The Suzuki method teaches the Mother-tongue approach; as a child learns his/her language via the surrounding environment, so the Suzuki child will learn their instrument via repetition, listening, and their senses.

The goal is not to create musical machines- but rather to give the child the tools to learn their instrument, creating in their spirits self-confidence, discipline, concentration, mental stamina, and a love for music and the beauty it brings to life.

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