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Upcoming Events

    • 12 Oct 2025
    • 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Zoom
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    Join us for our 2025 annual membership meeting where the MTSA board and officers will share updates on the state of the MTSA, plans for 2025-2026, and welcome questions and input from members. 

    Parents and teachers interested in helping maintain and continue this wonderful organization are encouraged to join us.

    Register to receive the Zoom link in the confirmation email.

    • 26 Oct 2025
    • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    • Sherith Israel, 3600 West End Ave, Nashville, TN 37205
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    MTSA Concertos Night!

    The second annual MTSA Concertos Night is a play-down focused on repertoire with orchestral accompaniment. An orchestra of teachers will assemble to perform the orchestral accompaniment while students will play the solo part together in the style of a play-down. 

    This kind of event has a long tradition at summer Suzuki institutes across the country and is a lot of fun. Join us to play your favorite concerts together with area teachers!

    Students interested in attending should register for this event so we know who to expect.

    Teachers should email RSVP to president@middletnsuzuki.org .


    MTSA concertos night 2024

    • 9 Nov 2025
    • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
    • Akiva School, 809 Percy Warner Blvd, Nashville, TN 37205
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    Auditions for the 5th Annual MTSA Concerto Competition will be held Sunday, November 9, 2024, at the Akiva School, 809 Percy Warner Blvd, Nashville, TN 37205,  between 1:30 and 4:30 in the afternoon.

    The competition is open to students on all instruments who are active members of the MTSA, and whose teachers are active members of the MTSA. Students may only compete once each year in either a concerto or duo concerto. Past winners of the concerto competition may not compete in the three years following their winning performance (i.e. winners of the 2021 Concerto Competition will be eligible to compete again in 2025).

    Students or parents should register between October 1st and November 1st. Please use the "register" button on the left to submit your registration. Late registrations cannot be accepted.

    Audition Requirements:  Perform, from memory, a movement of a concerto from their instrument's Suzuki repertoire.** Each performer is responsible for arranging their own pianist for the audition, and rehearsing with them prior to the competition. No time or space for rehearsal will be available on the day of the audition.

    Winner(s) will perform their piece on the 2026 MTSA Honors Recital, accompanied by a string orchestra, comprised of MTSA teachers and interested area professional musicians.

    The 2026 Honors Recital will be February 1st, 2026, at 2pm, location TBD.

    ** Special exception: If an audition piece as arranged in the Suzuki repertoire is an excerpt from the full movement, the student entering has the choice whether to compete with the Suzuki excerpt or the the original form of the piece (for example, the Golterman Rondo for cello).



28 Mar 2025 Bach Double @ 2025 BACHanalia
9 Feb 2025 Greater Nashville Suzuki Play-Down LIX
2 Feb 2025 Honors Recital 2025
15 Nov 2024 2025 MTSA Honors Recital Nominations
10 Nov 2024 Concerto Competition 2024
20 Oct 2024 Teri Einfeldt Masterclass + Suzuki's Birthday Party
29 Sep 2024 Concertos Night!
7 Sep 2024 National Anthem @ Nashville Sounds Game
18 Aug 2024 Parent Talk + Annual Membership Meeting (2024)
19 Apr 2024 Bach Double @ BACHanalia
4 Feb 2024 MTSA Honors Recital 2024
29 Jan 2024 Violin Teacher Training Workshop with Cathryn Lee: Developing the Advanced Bow Arm from the Beginning
21 Jan 2024 Learn Like a Genius with Gregg Goodhart
1 Dec 2023 2024 MTSA Honors Recital Nominations
12 Nov 2023 MTSA Concerto Competition Auditions 2023
8 Nov 2023 Shu-Yi Scott Masterclass
30 Sep 2023 Fall Workshop: Student Workshop
30 Sep 2023 Fall Workshop: Teacher Enrichment Seminar
29 Sep 2023 Fall Workshop: Masterclass Lessons
29 Sep 2023 Fall Workshop: Pre-Twinklers' Mini-Workshop
20 Aug 2023 Parent Talk + Annual Membership Meeting (2023)
26 Feb 2023 MTSA Winter Play-Down
5 Feb 2023 MTSA Honors Recital 2023
28 Nov 2022 2023 MTSA Honors Recital Nominations
13 Nov 2022 MTSA Concerto Competition Auditions 2022
26 Oct 2022 Board of Directors Meeting (October)
9 Oct 2022 Annual Membership Meeting (2022)
2 Oct 2022 MTSA Fall Workshop featuring Sofia Chiarandini and members of Kol Kahal
3 Aug 2022 Board of Directors Meeting (August)
27 Mar 2022 What Musicians Can Learn About Practicing From Current Brain Research by Dr. Molly Gebrian
6 Feb 2022 2022 MTSA Honors Recital
12 Dec 2021 MTSA Concerto Competition Auditions
6 Dec 2021 2022 MTSA Honors Recital and Honors Recital Nominations
20 Nov 2021 Family Trivia Night
10 Oct 2021 2021 Annual Membership Meeting via zoom
3 Oct 2021 Suzuki Play-In - POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER!!!
23 May 2021 Family Trivia Night
11 Apr 2021 Brian Lewis Masterclasses
15 Nov 2020 Fiddle Jam & Play-In Party
2 Oct 2020 2020 Fall Suzuki Workshop - CANCELED
11 Jul 2020 Nashville Suzuki Institute - CANCELED
6 Jun 2020 Online Teacher Seminar: Teaching With an Open Heart, with Ed Kreitman
27 Mar 2020 Bach Double Performance at 2020 Bachanalia Fest
9 Feb 2020 Suzuki Play-Down at Blair School of Music
2 Feb 2020 MTSA HONORS RECITAL
2 Nov 2019 Suzuki Principles in Action
29 Sep 2019 Teacher Enrichment Seminar & Invitational Student Masterclass Lessons with Dr. Timothy Durbin
26 Sep 2019 2019 Fall Violin Fall Workshop
17 Aug 2019 Nashville Sounds Baseball National Anthem performance
13 Jul 2019 Nashville Suzuki Institute




Past Events Reports

2019
  • 2/10/19 - Honors Recital
  • 3/29/19 - Bach Double Performance at the Bacchanalia Festival
  • 7/13-7/21, 2019 - The first Nashville Suzuki Institute
  • 8/17/19 - National Anthem at the Nashville Sounds Baseball Game                         and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"!



2018

  • 8/19/18 - National Anthem at the Nashville Sounds Baseball Game
  • 9/13/18 - 9/16/18 - MTSA Fall Violin Workshop
  • 10/27/18 - MTSA & Nashville Symphony’s Free Day of Music Performance


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