Therèse Ahlers Music Studio

Dear Students and families,

Welcome to the start of a new school year! I hope you’ve all enjoyed a wonderful holiday, especially the lovely summer weather during December and January (which has often been quite wet in past years) but with some heavy rain at the moment breaking the drought.

Cello lessons are starting this coming week, and I’m planning on keeping the timetable very much the same as last year with cello group lessons on Thursday afternoons (advanced group 4.00pm-4.45pm and Book 1 group 5.10pm-6.00pm) at Wesley church small hall and individual lessons at my home. Please let me know as soon as possible should the time for you individual lesson have to be adjusted. New students wishing to start may contact me to arrange a suitable time to meet.

It may be possible this year to form some cello ensemble groups of school-aged students for participation in the July Arts Festival and/or other festivals later in the year. I will contact the students involved individually.

I hope to run another Tiny Twinklers Suzuki ECE music class this term, so if you know anyone who would be interested, please let them know to contact me!

I am looking forward to another year of working with all my wonderful students. I’ve been very impressed with the progress of each student as well as your dedication, hard work, participation and enjoyment of the lessons, concerts and graduations. An important part of the musical journey is encouraging and supporting each other in your individual development – you are all different in the way you learn and express yourselves! Each person has different strengths: learning a musical instrument is a very broad and satisfying way of exploring one’s creativity, thought processes, physical co-ordination and many other skills. Music is, and has been through the ages, a very strong force to uplift and inspire people and for this reason I feel very privileged to be a classical music teacher.

I am in the process of creating a cello blog on my studio website, which you are welcome to visit. This is a new journey for me! The website is www.thereseahlers.com,  Please also see my revised schedule for cello lesson payments. My fee structure remains the same since my return to Tauranga in 2008, but I am re-introducing the option of 12 equal monthly instalments. This payment option (as an automatic bank transfer at the start of the month, which you can arrange with online banking or visiting your branch) has been a very convenient arrangement for most families in the past, as well as for me.

Looking forward to seeing you all this coming week!

Therèse Ahlers