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Music Box 1 & 2

Music Box 1 & 2

Music Box 1

Age/Level: 4-5 (Reception) Time: 9:15am - 9:45am Taught By: Susanna Alsey

Music Box 1 is extremely popular and very good fun! It is the perfect introduction class for 4-5 yr olds, learning music through movement, singing and games. Not only does it give children the best start in their musical life, on the way to instrumental groups and lessons, it also provides the opportunity to form friendship groups at the very start of their YMM journey.

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Music Box 2

Age/Level: 5-6 (year 1) Time: 11:00am - 11:30am Taught By: Susanna Alsey

One year on from Music Box 1, this class focuses on more advanced musicianship skills, through movement, singing, games and classroom percussion. After this year, children will be well-equipped to start an instrumental group and focus on learning the specifics of their instrument.

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Teachers

Susanna Alsey

Susanna Alsey

Susanna Alsey

Susanna Alsey is a freelance violinist and educator. Susanna is a violinist in Southbank Sinfonia for the 2024-2025 season. She regularly performs with various orchestras and ensembles. She has performed in concerts as part of the Orpheus Sinfonia Foundation Programme 2023-2024, the English Arts Orchestra, Suffolk Philharmonic, Buxton International Festival Young Instrumentalists Programme, Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy, at the BBC Proms and alongside the Hallé Orchestra.

Susanna works with various organisations throughout the year including National Children’s Orchestras of Great Britain, The Benedetti Foundation and has worked with National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. She teaches violin in various schools including Caterham School, Rochester Independent College and at The Mick Jagger Centre. Susanna also has her own private violin studio and previously worked at The Purcell School and Sevenoaks School.

Susanna completed her undergraduate studies in Music at the University of Cambridge where she held a Newnham College Instrumental Award, a Choral Exhibitioner Award, and was President of the Raleigh Music Society. She studied the violin with Stephen Bryant and played in an array of orchestral projects including Cambridge University Orchestra and Cambridge University Opera Society. Susanna then completed her Masters in Violin Performance at the Royal Northern College of Music studying violin under Yossi Zivoni. Whilst a postgraduate student, she won the RNCM Underrepresented Prize and performed at the InterHarmony International Music Festival, where she studied under Milan Vitek and performed in masterclasses with Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Chin Kim and Yuri Zaidenberg. She also performed in a masterclass with Sophia Jaffé at the RNCM and undertook further study with Professor Jaffé at the Allegro Vivo Festival in Austria. Susanna will be studying at Voksenåsen Summer Academy in Norway in August 2024. Susanna currently studies violin under the tutelage of Krzysztof Smietana. Her violin and bow are kindly on loan from the Benslow Music Trust.

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