Workshop 2023 Faculty

Spend a week with some of the biggest names in the profession!

Robert Gillespie, director of Morning String Student Workshop

Bob Gillespie • String Teacher Workshop director; co-author of Essential Elements for Strings (Hal Leonard); teacher educator and leader in string education.

Jeremy Bartel • Baroque Violin Shop

Erin Broadhurst • Orchestra director, Memorial Middle School and Bradley High School, Hilliard City Schools (Ohio)

Miriam Burns • Director of orchestras and orchestra conducting, The Ohio State University

Becky Bush • Orchestra director and founder of the Hudsonville Public Schools Orchestra Program in Hudsonville, Michigan; co-author of Sound Differentiation for Beginning String Orchestra (Alfred Music)

Brian Cole • Orchestra teacher in Moorhead, Minnesota Public Schools; frequent clinician, speaker and guest conductor

Kathleen Horvath • Associate professor of string education, Case Western Reserve University

Tim Lautzenheiser • Teacher, clinician, author, composer, consultant and adjudicator with a focus on positive attitude and effective leadership training

Charles Laux • Director of orchestras, Lassiter High School (Marietta, Georgia); Essential Elements contributor (Hal Leonard); endorsed artist/clinician, D’Addario Orchestral Strings and Eastman Strings

Robert Longfield • Award-winning composer, conductor, arranger and educator

Shelby Montgomery • Orchestra director, George Jenkins High School and Lakeland Highlands Middle School (Lakeland, Florida)

Katie O'Hara LaBrie • Composer, conductor, clinician; Orchestra Editor, Randall Standridge Music Publications

Jim Palmer • Orchestra director and Fine Arts Department chairman at Allatoona High School in Acworth, Georgia; editor, arranger and featured clinician for Alfred Music

Deborah Price, photo by Holley Meister Rosebaugh

Deborah Price • Artistic director, Chamber Music Connection, Inc.; viola, violin and chamber music faculty, Denison University; Yamaha Certified String Educator/Clinician

Anna Radspinner • Orchestra director, Williamsport Area School District (Pennsylvania)

Matt Radspinner • Orchestra director, Williamsport Area High School (PA); music director, Williamsport Symphony Youth Orchestra

Additional Faculty

Baroque Violin Shop
Erin Broadhurst
Erica Donahoe
Matt Hawley
Matt Kinnear
Chris Lape, Workshop Administrator
Tanner Otto
Renee Wang
Doug Wright

Sessions

String Teacher Workshop