PEDAGOGICAL  MANAGEMENT

Natalia Grima was born  in San Miguel de Tucumán. She started her musical studies in the Provincial Conservatory of Music in this city. Later  she started her piano studies in the Superior Institute of Music of the University of Tucumán  under the guidance of Oscar Buriek. She graduated with the degree of  Piano Profesor in 2000 with outstanding qualifications. With the same conditions she graduated as Licentiate in Music at the  Art College of the University of Tucumán. As a result of this she was distinguished by the Federación Argentina de Mujeres Universitarias   in 2007 with the Medal FAMU,, selected among  the 82 best university  averages. In 1997  she was given a scholarship by the Fundación Banco Empresario de Tucumán to continue her studies with Carmen Scalcione in the city of Buenos Aires, where she travelled periodically until 2000. Miss Grima took part in piano masterclasses with Ana Laura Stampalia, John Gavalchín, Ralph Votapek, Pia Sebastián, Silvia and Estela Kersembaum, Ana María Trenchi, Haydeé Schwartz, among others. As a pianist she has performed as solist with different orchestral groups in her native city, and she has also taken part in piano and chamber music recitals.. Likewise, between  2001 and 2002 she was asked to take part  in the Symphonic Orchestra of the University of Tucumán. Together with her painistic activity, she has been teaching children  with the Susuki Method since 1997. In this field she studied under Carolina Fraser and Doris Koppelman for the Teaching of Piano, and with Lucía del Río and Roxana del Barco for Early Musical Stimulation. Miss Grima has actively participated in a number of Courses, Meetings and Suzuki Festivals  which were held in Argentina (Tucumán, Córdoba, Rosario and Buenos Aires), and abroad in (Chile and Perú). At the Susuki Association in Perú to attend the International Festival of the Susuki Method which is held every year in the city of Lima. There she  attended a number of courses , and she also gave piano lessons. Since 1997 until 2003 she was in charge of the piano professorship at the School “Educación del Talento Shinichi Suzuki”. During this time her pupils took part in a number of concerts and competitions where they obtained many rewards. For this reason she was distinguished as “Outstanding Woman of our city, for her contribution to the Tucumán cultura through the teaching of Piano”. In April 2004 due to merits she was called by the Instituto Superior de Música University of Tucumán to be in charge of the professorship of piano. In that same year she came to live in  Capital Federal. In this city she teaches piano at the Colegium Musicum since 2005 and at the Buenos Aires  Suzuki Centre between 2005 and 2008. She is founder  and pedagogical Headmistress at the Suzuki Piano School in Buenos Aires, where she is Piano  and Early Musical Stimulation professor.