Music school back in September

ARTS — The Kamloops Symphony Music School is back in session this September with two new group classes being offered: group voice and group Suzuki violin.

Danielle Faulkner is a recent addition to the music school’s faculty and will be instructing the group voice lessons.

Faulkner graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Music in Opera Performance. She has appeared as a soloist with the Vancouver Symphony, Vancouver Opera Orchestra and the Northern Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

Group Suzuki violin classes are also being offered for the first time this year. Annette Dominik, Kamloops Symphony musician and music school instructor, has recently become certified in the Suzuki Method.

The Suzuki Method is a “mother-tongue” approach to teaching music that uses the same principles as learning a language. Dominik is a registered Suzuki ECC/Unit 1 violin teacher. She has 35 years of orchestral playing experience.

Kamloops Symphony Music School is a non-profit music school operated by the Kamloops Symphony Society. It offers private and group lessons. Group lessons are offered to students as young as two years old through the Music for Young Children program.

Private lessons are offered for students of all ages in piano, theory, voice, strings, bass, cello, viola, violin, bassoon, clarinet, flute, French horn, oboe, trombone and trumpet, and include preparation for recitals, festival performances, conservatory exams and post-secondary entrance auditions.