Press Room

Press Room

Strings Program Press Releases:
How to find a great music teacher for your child
Is Your Child Ready for Music Lessons?

Articles

Press Releases
4/12/08 South Pasadena Youth Orchestra Receives Pasadena Showcase House Grant
4/08/08 'Viva Viola' at Second Annual Violafest

Biography
Susan Pascale

Susan Pascale
Photos by Michelle Samura

Susan Pascale is a musician, teacher, entrepreneur, visual artist, mother and wife. She is the founder and director of the Los-Angeles-based South Pasadena Strings Program, a nationally-acclaimed program which teaches piano, violin, cello, guitar, viola and voice to preschoolers through adults . She is also the creator of the KinderPiano® and KinderStrings® system. Her award-winning elementary and middle school string orchestras have appeared on television, and she was honored on the nationally-syndicated Larry Elder show as a 'hero' for her work in youth music education. She teaches seminars, workshops to music educators and parents as well as students. Contact her at stringsprogram@aol.com, or at 626-403/4611, in Southern California.

Interviews with Susan Pascale
MSNBC, 2005
Eye on LA, 2007
Your LA, 2007
Larry Elder Show

Interview Topics
Ms. Pascale is happy to be interviewed by the media on subjects relating to music, children and entrepreneurship, including:

- Is my child ready for music lessons?
- How to find a great music teacher.
- How young is too young?
- How to start a children’s orchestra.
- How to get your child to Carnegie Hall.
- From tot to teen: The making of a musician
- Learn to play the violin in 14 easy lessons.
- How to motivate kids to practice.
- To buy or not to buy (musical instruments)
- Adult onset music lessons: Do’s and Don’ts
- Working mothers, women in business, entrepreneurship

Strings Program History

Student Performances