Workshop Faculty 2025

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

Heather Lofdahl • String Teacher Workshop director; Assistant Professor of Music Education, The Ohio State University

Jeremy Bartel • Baroque Violin Shop

The Loft Violin Shop

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

Frank Diaz • Associate Professor of Music (Music Education); Coordinator, Office of Wellness and Arts in Health Initiatives

Bob Gillespie • Professor Emeritus, String Music Education, The Ohio State University

Adrian Gordon • Founder, Leap Year Music; Orchestra Director at Westminster Christian School in Palmetto Bay, Florida

Rebecca MacLeod • Professor of Music Education and Daniel J. Perrino Endowed Chair in Music at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Yukiko Nishimura • Composer and Pianist

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

Daryl Silberman • Violinist, violist, and orchestra director in Naperville, IL

Tammy S. Yi is a first-gen conductor/educator, string pedagogy specialist, and music education scholar from Los Angeles, California. She is the conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic YIYO Orchestra, director of Mariachi Panteras, and assistant professor of music education at Chapman University.