Melanie Loy has spent the last 20 years teaching orchestra in Worthington. When she started at ISD 518 in 2006, she was the ...

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra Young Strings Program marked its 30th-anniversary last year. Over the last 3-decades, generations of young musicians have learned to play string instruments with the goal ...

Participants in the ASU Strings Project playing the violin on the second floor of ASU Gammage. Participants are taught string instruments by music education or performance majors at ASU. (Photo by ...

MANSFIELD -- When Chris Japikse arrived at Malabar Intermediate School in the fall of 2015, only 34 students were participating in string music classes. Today, there are 109. Japikse’s passion for ...

Membership in the University of Colorado Boulder Student ASTA chapter is open to all students interested in string playing and teaching, at or below the graduate level. The American String Teachers ...

Bluegrass fans say the mountain-inspired music helps kids understand history—and themselves. In the Atlanta suburb where 13-year-old Sarah Schneider lives, the instrument tucked under her chin is ...

The violinist and string teacher Sheila Nelson, who has died aged 84, pioneered bold insights into how children can be guided toward discovering the joys of music-making without coercion, and taking ...

FRAN SCOTT: I love this piece. In fact I think it was the first bitof classical music that I ever heard. GREG FOOT: Ah yes Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. It's got the best startto any piece of music ever ...