MY TEACHING
Kazue Suzuki teaches piano for all ages, children and adults of all abilities, beginners to advanced since 2001. She tailors lessons to support each student's needs, learning style and interests, with the goal of making lessons fun and exciting, while also pursuing a good skills building program. Kazue provides detailed instruction in technique, repertoire (classical, jazz and popular), music theory, and improvisation, with the ultimate goal of enabling students to pursue and excel in whatever their own musical interests may be.
For students who are so inclined, Kazue provides and encourages various opportunities to perform in festivals, competitions, adjudications, music celebration concerts, holiday concerts and master classes to receive any musical experiences to grow with.
Kazue Suzuki was a member of the Music Teachers National Association in United States, Oregon Music Teacher’s Association and Willamette Valley Federated Music Club since 2003.
Kazue received the 2-year Tholen Fellowships in 2018 from Portland Piano International in Oregon to deepening her professional development to empower as pianist and teacher.
Kazue is now teaching in Paris France where she studies for deepening her musical growth since 2019.
MY MUSIC HISTORY
Currently Kazue studies at Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris under piano professor Mr. Michael WLADKOWSKI.
Kazue started her own piano teaching studio in 2001 and have been her main focus on teaching piano for various styles of music for all ages and levels, assisting students participating festivals, competitions, examinations in Salem and Portland, Oregon. It always is her passion and path to deepen her piano study to be a better pianist and a better piano teacher. She enjoys participating masterclasses regularly in U.S., France and Italy along with her teaching.
For past several years Kazue studied from Dr. Jean-David Coen (Portland, Oregon), Madame Francoise Thinat (Paris, France), Tatiana Loudenitch(Portland, Oregon) and Madame Odile Delangle (Paris, France) and also studied Jazz and improvisation from Mike Van Liew (Portland Oregon).
Kazue's musical journey with the piano started when she was very young, in Japan. Since age 10, Kazue enjoyed being an accompanist for school Choir regularly. She holds her degree of Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance fromWestern Oregon University with Magna Cum Laude, a degree of Associate Arts with English Literature at Senzoku College in Tokyo with receiving the highest honor of achievement.
AS A PERFORMER
Kazue Suzuki keeps her public performances active : Sonata Op.31 No. 2 by BEETHOVEN / Hommage a Georges Cziffra by CAMPO 21 June, Nucturne No.4 by FAURE on 22 May, Rondo from Suite Op.14 by ROUSSEL on 10 April 2022 at Musee de Jean-Jacques HENNER.
Solo Piano Concert was held at the churchSaint Philippe du Roule in Paris, March 2019.
Numbers solo piano performances were held in Salem, Oregon, Atri, Italy 2019, Pietrasanta, Italy 2017.
Blue Bird Trio, with multi-instrumentalist and composer Courtney Von Drehle, and with Masumi Timson, Koto player for Pink Martini, In this setting, Kazue plays melodica in addition to the piano. Our repertoire includes Tango, Nuevo Tango, Jazz, Eastern European, movie scores, Japanese folk songs, impressionistic piano pieces and original compositions. We frequently collaborate and have performed in Tokyo, Fukushima in Japan, London in U.K, Chicago and Portland Oregon in United States.
Prior to this, Kazue was a member of Monmouth Taiko for six years, sharing the traditional and modern Taiko music of Japan throughout Oregon.
RECORDINGS :
WALTZ Opus 64 No 1 仔犬のワルツ by CHOPIN ショパン
NOCTURNE Opus 9 No 2 by CHOPIN ショパン
EVOCACION from IBERIA Book 1 by ALBENIZ アルベニズ
EL PUERTO from IBERIA Book 1 by ALBENIZ アルベニズ
GAVOTTE ET DOUBLES by RAMEAU ラモー
Reflets dans l'eau [Images Book1] DEBUSSY 水の反映
Listen to BLUE BIRD TRIO
BALLADE by DEBUSSY ドビュッシー
BALLADE G minor by CHOPIN ショパン
Testimonials
Our children Cameron and Chloe have been taking lessons with Kazue Suzuki since 2006. It has been a joy to see her relate to them as very young children and as young adults. She has allowed them to grow and develop musically by encouraging them and expecting good effort.
She inspires young musicians with her own amazing talent. She is an incredible pianist and all-around musician! And as our son heads to college, he will carry this love of music with him thanks to Ms. Suzuki.
- Parents of students, Cameron & Chloe Elmore
"Not only does Kazue's guidance get me groovin', but it also teaches me how to be comfortable with performing in front of an audience. In three years, I've learned how to persevere and break down difficult pieces into manageable measures. Kazue is a remarkable piano teacher and a great story teller too!" - Jack Henry Majeski
"I’ve been taking piano lesson from Kazue Suzuki's Wildwind Piano Studios for a few years. The experience is one I will never forget she is an amazing teacher. It is so fun preparing for a concert, you get so nervous then when your time comes to shine you blow the audience away. Plus I consider Kazue my friend. She is a good person and fun to be around. Concerts are pretty much always optional so if you are embarrassed to do stuff in front of other people you don't have to perform. In all I highly recommend Kazue Suzuki as a piano teacher, it is hard work to learn how to play the piano or any instrument really, but it is worth it to dazzle the crowd and Kazue will help you do that." - Madeline White (Age 10)
“As an older adult student, I especially appreciate Kazue Suzuki's multi-faceted ability to correct long-standing problems in my playing. She does so with a gentle, patient touch, but very clearly, with logical reasoning behind the new performance standard. Kazue is also an inventive teacher. For instance, if a student has difficulty understanding a rhythmical problem in one way, she finds another way--or several--to solve the issue. Added to that, she is gracious, warm, quick to smile, and always very, very encouraging.
As a serious pianist in her own right, Kazue Suzuki maintains professional standards for herself as well, taking lessons from master teachers and performing in recitals and other public engagements. As a result, she hasn't forgotten how it feels to be a student, still learning. From the youngest student starting out to someone who hasn't played the piano in decades, Kazue Suzuki would be an exceptionally fine choice as a teacher. Her musical knowledge in terms of form, style, and expressiveness is thorough (including theory), and her teaching style is wonderfully effective. After a lesson with Kazue, a student wants to go home to practice.”
- Patricia Alley
"Fantasy Pieces" op.73 Schumann : Flute & Piano "TRIO" for Flute, Violin and Piano by Nino Rota
