PACIFIC NORTHWEST SCHOOL-MUSIC

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In 1964, Dr. Shinichi Suzuki made his first visit to North America to participate in the National Music Teachers’ Conference in New York, New York. He brought a group of very young Japanese Suzuki students with him to perform. Dr. Suzuki used this opportunity to demonstrate the high level of achievement attainable through his method, and in doing so, planted the seed that grew into the Suzuki movement as it exists today in the United States.
At the urgent request of the American Suzuki teachers and parents, Dr. Suzuki sent the first Suzuki music ambassador, Mihoko Hirata, to the United States in 1967. Mrs. Hirata came to Holy Names Academy on Capitol Hill in Seattle to help two Catholic nuns develop music eduction using the Suzuki method. Through her timeless devotion, she has trained endless Suzuki teachers (including the principal of our school herself, Hsin-Chi Liu), parents, and students. Three years after her arrival, she started the first Suzuki school in the Pacific Northwest; this school evolved into the Pacific Northwest School of Music.
Dr. Suzuki sent two more of his students, Katsutoshi and Mari Nakamurato, to join forces with Mrs. Hirata at the new school in 1974. Despite its frequent moves, the school that they began was flourishing. In 2001, after 30 years of nomadic wandering, the school found a long-term home. Our current location is a fantastic place, and we appreciate it every day.

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