YOUR ART & VIOLIN TEACHER

Molly Ann Pereira comes from an all around Suzuki family—she started Suzuki violin at the age of three, and her brothers on Suzuki viola and Suzuki cello at the ages of  five and seven on the Suzuki Program of the All Newton Music School  in Newton, Massachusetts.

By the age of four, Molly Ann, and  her brothers were performing regularly in concerts at community affairs in Newton and the Greater Boston area. 

Attending the yearly Suzuki Festivals, performing regularly for her family as well as friends at weddings and get togethers were a big part of Molly-Ann's life growing up.

By the age of 4½, Molly-Ann had completed Suzuki Book I and participated in a television performance, playing the entire Suzuki Book I on Boston TV!

By the age of 6, Molly-Ann had completed Suzuki Book II and had moved to the Chestnut Hill area of  Philadelphia  where she became  part of the Evan Thomas Institute’s Suzuki Program.  Here she continued to study violin under Suzuki violin teachers, and later she studied under Julian Meyers, a graduate of Julliard School of Music, and a teacher at Temple University.

Also at the age of 6, Molly-Ann Pereira began her private art study under Mrs. Dot Horle, a well-known Philadelphia artist of the 50's and 60's who was famous for her works of art in the Smithsonian Institute and the White House.

Molly-Ann studied art nine hours a week, and very quickly began producing beautiful still lifes, landscapes, and portraits in pastels.  By the age of 10 she had her own art show with a number of persons offering to buy her paintings.

By the age of 12, she had begun to teach art to younger students who also began to produce beautiful still-lifes and other paintings.

   
When Molly-Ann was 8 years old, she and the other Suzuki students of the Evan Thomas Institute had the unique experience of performing on stage with  Liza Minnelli! 

The following year Liza invited them to perform with her once again!

Molly-Ann, having studied the Japanese language and culture for some five years, went to Japan for six weeks at the age of ten.

   

By the age of 13, Molly-Ann had played in over 150 concerts and formal events.

In the years that followed her graduation from the Evan Thomas Institute, Molly-Ann traveled to Canada and the Dominican Republic, where she continued to enjoy giving violin performances.

Later she traveled to Korea where she taught at a Korean institute for 8 weeks, again, giving a violin performance.

Molly-Ann moved to the Dominican Republic,  where today she continues to perform  in  concerts and  community events.

She was the  Director of Arts & Violin in a private school in the Dominican Republic for some five years, after which she founded her own private school, the Jarabacoa School of Arts & Violin, in a little mountain town in the Dominican Republic.

Molly-Ann is now married  and lives in the Dominican Republic.  She continues to teach violin and art to tiny kids and adults, and paints for her own enjoyment.  She also devotes a good portion of her time engaging in volunteer missionary work with her husband.

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