Founded in 2020, The Cello Collective offers you access to some of New Zealand’s finest Suzuki music educators. The Cello Collective offers unique, holistic and accessible music education through the Suzuki method, throughout New Zealand. The Cello Collective seeks to provide an accessible and engaging music education programme that provides high quality music tuition through a holistic, play-based curriculum – engaging children and their families through a range of activities and ensembles.

The Cello Collective strives to nurture the character and ability of children through Dr Suzuki’s vision of communities enriched by music. The programme delivers music education through The Suzuki Method, which combines instrumental teaching with a philosophy embracing the total development of the child. The triangle of parent, teacher, and child creates a community of learning and sharing, nurturing happy and successful future world citizens through music. The individual lesson is supplemented by regular group lessons where students, parents, and teachers learn and play together. Dr Suzuki believed that musical ability is not an inborn talent but a capacity which can be nurtured and developed. Any child who experiences the right environment can acquire musical ability and grow into a sensitive, disciplined, and confident person. “Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens, noble human beings” (Dr Suzuki).

At The Cello Collective, our mission is to inspire children to discover and grow through the exploration of music in a nurturing environment where they can develop musically and socially.

Study offered at The Cello Collective:

- Private tuition

- Group classes

- Musicianship & Musical Literacy classes

- Chamber Music

- Play-based musical enrichment

- Performance opportunities in the local and wider community