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 ...

Margery Kowal was the first teacher in the string instrument program in the Henderson County Schools -- and 25 years later she's still teaching and still enjoying it. But Kowal didn't plan to be a ...

The strings the cellist is referring to is the area of music education called string teaching. Teaching school-age children the violin, viola, cello and double bass–instruments that are played with a ...

BRENTWOOD – Shelly Tweedy’s string art classes literally start out with a bang! It is loud when a group of 15 women pound finishing nails into stained wood with hammers simultaneously in a small room.

Visit any local farmers market, summer festival or coffee-house jam session, and you’ll likely see adults making music with fiddles, banjos and mandolins. It’s no surprise, then, that Vermont kids ...

When opening a high school for the arts this fall, would the Hazleton Area School District also start teaching students to play stringed instruments? That request came from supervisors of Butler Twp., ...

Graduate student Kim Campbell grew up in an inner city school and turned to music as a way out. Campbell, who is working toward her master's degree in education and music with a focus in strings, is ...

NORWALK -- In a fitting tribute to Barbara DiFranco's retirement after 42 years as a strings and orchestra teacher in the Norwalk Public Schools, several dozen former students gathered on the Nathan ...