Welcome to the London Suzuki Group

Helen graduated on violin from the Royal College of Music in London before coming across the Suzuki Method in 1968, in New York. Her four children learned with a Japanese Suzuki teacher in USA when they were little. On return to the UK in 1969, Helen pioneered the Suzuki Method and founded the first Suzuki group in Europe – The London Suzuki Group. Since then she studied extensively with Dr Suzuki in Japan (graduating in 1983) and has become the UK Director of Suzuki for the European Board. She is currently teacher training and travelling all over the world. In July 2012 Helen was honoured with the Polish Gold Medal for Culture & Heritage from the Ministry of Culture in Poland for her services to the Polish People. In April 2016, Helen was the director of the highly successful British Suzuki Gala concert at the Royal Albert Hall, with 1,300 children from all over Europe and beyond. In 2016, she was offered Lifetime Achievement Award by ESTA (European String Teachers Association). In 2013 Helen began the initial Suzuki violin teacher training programme in Moscow, which grows and flourishes. Helen is privileged to play a 1683 Amati violin.