OUR TEACHERS

Una Lauw
- 30 years of teaching experience.
-Suzuki Violin, Piano and ECE.
-President of Suzuki Talent Education Association Singapore (STEAS)
-Chair of Asia Region Suzuki Association (ARSA)
-Suzuki Violin Teacher Certified till Book 10.
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At 3½, Una Lauw learnt to play the violin from her father, S.C. Lauw. Mr Lauw, with his wife Peck Twee, belong to the pioneer group of Singaporean Suzuki Teachers trained by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki.
Una completed the Suzuki Book 7 at 9, and the Trinity College London Grade 8 Examinations at 11 & her 1st violin performance diploma(ATCL) at 13. She continued her violin studies with Ms Vivien Goh, Mr Foo Say-Ming, Mr Ng Yu-Ying, and had masterclasses with Ms Takako Nishizaki, Mr Ronald Woodcock, Mr Chua Lik Wuk, Mr Yasuki Nakamura, and Professor Lan Ku Chen.
Una started to give violin lessons at 16 and has over 30 years’ experience teaching violin under the Suzuki Method. She strongly believes in the Suzuki Method Philosophy, that “Every Child Can Learn” and that students should be nurtured with love. She has trained under various Suzuki trainers (Mr Yasuki Nakamura, Dr Lan Ku Chen, Ms Chen Wan-Tsai, Mr Edward Kreitman, Mr Koen Ren). She received her full Suzuki Violin Teaching Certification in 2005 and still does courses & review training regularly to improve her teaching skills and playing techniques. She also did her Suzuki Piano training with the late Prof C. Arambulo. She also holds certification of violin performance at all three diploma levels from the Trinity College of Music: ATCL, LTCL & FTCL.
Being a trained Suzuki Early Childhood Education teacher, she has been teaching SECE classes since 2017. Out of interest, she has also attended Kodaly & Dalcroze workshops. To help her understand her younger students better, she completed the Childcare & Early Learning and Child Psychology Diplomas.
She conducts both group and individual classes for her studio. All her classes continued uninterrupted online in 2020 and 2021 despite the difficult Covid conditions. Her studio holds 2 concerts annually to give students the opportunity to build stage confidence and provide exposure.
Since 1995, she has been attending Suzuki Music conferences and teacher training workshops around the world, and has also taught at Manila Conference in 2018, Korea Music Winter & Summer Festivals in 2024, and the annual Suzuki camps in Singapore.
An advocate of the Suzuki Method in Singapore, Una is credited with working relentlessly to form the Suzuki Talent Education Association Singapore (STEAS) and has been its President since its inception in August 2015. She is also serving on the Asia Region Suzuki Association as a Board member and is currently the Chairperson of ARSA.
As a violinist, Una has performed with several local orchestras in Singapore including the Singapore Youth Orchestra (now known as the Singapore National Youth Orchestra), Chamber Players, Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra and the XYO (formed by the alumni from SYO’s members from its first decade) and the Amity Chamber Orchestra.
Una’s children have been trained with the Suzuki Violin Method from 2 ½ years old, and her eldest, has passed the Grade 8 exams at 7 years, completed the Suzuki Book 10 at 9 years and the ATCL diploma at 10 years of age.
- Trained by Dr Suzuki himself
- Teaching experience of more than 35 years for Suzuki Violin method.
- Suzuki Certified to Book 8.
- Executive committee member of Suzuki Talent Education Association Singapore (STEAS).
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Trained personally by Dr Suzuki, Ms Chise Yajima and Mr Yasuki Nakamura, Mrs Lauw-Teo Peck Twee has been teaching the violin for more than 30 years and has been an active advocate for the Method in Singapore. She strongly believes in the Suzuki’s “Mother Tongue” approach in learning music and has been actively participating in Suzuki Conferences, seminars and Teachers' workshop throughout Australia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and USA. She was involved in the Suzuki Music Conference in Singapore in 2002 and was a faculty member in the 3rd Asia Suzuki Conference in Manila, 2007.
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An extremely patient musician with a warm and personable approach, she is one of the few trained and experienced Senior Suzuki teachers in Singapore who has been teaching young beginner violin students from 2½ years old for than 30 years. In fact, her students were the 1st in Singapore to be graded by Dr Suzuki himself for the Suzuki assessment grading test back in the 1985.
Mrs Lauw-Teo
Peck Twee
