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Ferenc's
teaching methods are based on the Kodaly
Concept of Music Education.
Ferenc Juhasz studied classical clarinet and music education at the Zoltan
Kodaly Conservatory of Music
in Debrecen, Hungary. During
this time, he performed as a classical clarinetist with the
conservatory’s Symphony Orchestra as well as with the Csokonay
Theater in Debrecen. After completing his education in Debrecen, he taught
classical clarinet at the Lajos
Bardos Public School in
Fehergyarmat, Hungary to middle through high school aged students
and during this time also became interested in the music of jazz.
With the help of his very first music teacher, Béla
Bárány,
he traded in his clarinet for a saxophone and learned how to play it
practicing in city streets for change from passer-bys.
Formal education of jazz saxophone and popular music followed
at the Felix
Mendelssohn Conservatory for Music and Theater
in Leipzig, Germany. While
studying there he also taught all levels of jazz saxophone,
clarinet, and flute as well as beginner’s piano to private music
students. During this
time period, Mr. Juhasz experimented with various forms of
jazz-based performance (jazz standards, bee-bop, free jazz, bossa-nova
and Latin American music, improvisational music).
This diversity, combined with his earlier education in
classical music, is now reflected in his teaching of and interest in
all types of music. He
has been teaching in the greater New York area of the USA for the
past two years.
“After all one can
live without music. There is a way even across the desert. But we,
who are working that every child should get the key to good music,
and with it a talisman against bad music, we don't want them to walk
their path of life like those wandering through the desert but like
those passing through blooming flower gardens.”
-Zoltán Kodály-
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