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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...