Nora Hamerman is a third generation music teacher who embraced the Suzuki philosophy of music education after watching her two children flourish as Suzuki violin students.
She has completed specialized training to teach Books 1-6 of the Suzuki Piano Method.
In addition, she has been trained in Dalcroze Eurythmics for teaching rhythmic movement to young children, and in 2015 she completed the full training in Music Mind Games, a method for teaching theory and note reading skills created by Michiko Yurko. Music Mind Games is an integral part of every student's experience in the studio.
In the past she has worked as a journalist, editor, a professor of art history, a K-8 elementary school music teacher, and a director of both youth and adult choirs. She continues to lecture in art history at the Osher Lifelong Learning program of Johns Hopkins University in Rockville, MD.
She speaks French, German, Spanish and Italian and has given classical-technique voice lessons to sing in those languages.
She belongs to the Suzuki Association of the Americas, the Suzuki Association of the Greater Washington Area, the Fairfax-Loudoun Music Fellowship, the National Guild of Piano Teachers, Music Teachers National Association and Northern Virginia Music Teachers Association. Through these organizations her students have the opportunity to participate in multi-instrument recitals in the spring and fall, the FLMF Ensemble Festival in the winter, and the Bach-Baroque and Sonata Festivals sponsored by the NVMTA each spring.
See Nora's Suzuki biography and certificates
She has completed specialized training to teach Books 1-6 of the Suzuki Piano Method.
In addition, she has been trained in Dalcroze Eurythmics for teaching rhythmic movement to young children, and in 2015 she completed the full training in Music Mind Games, a method for teaching theory and note reading skills created by Michiko Yurko. Music Mind Games is an integral part of every student's experience in the studio.
In the past she has worked as a journalist, editor, a professor of art history, a K-8 elementary school music teacher, and a director of both youth and adult choirs. She continues to lecture in art history at the Osher Lifelong Learning program of Johns Hopkins University in Rockville, MD.
She speaks French, German, Spanish and Italian and has given classical-technique voice lessons to sing in those languages.
She belongs to the Suzuki Association of the Americas, the Suzuki Association of the Greater Washington Area, the Fairfax-Loudoun Music Fellowship, the National Guild of Piano Teachers, Music Teachers National Association and Northern Virginia Music Teachers Association. Through these organizations her students have the opportunity to participate in multi-instrument recitals in the spring and fall, the FLMF Ensemble Festival in the winter, and the Bach-Baroque and Sonata Festivals sponsored by the NVMTA each spring.
See Nora's Suzuki biography and certificates