Learn from Great Strings Teachers

2023 and 2024 Saxophone teacher of the Year, 2025 Baritone Sax teacher of the Year I started playing music when I was I ten. I was awarded a partial scholarship to the University of Idaho's Lionel Hampton School of Music where I majored in Classical Saxophone Performance and won the Outstanding Jazz Soloist award (2004).

Kevin grew up in New York where he studied piano with Marvin Drucker and played trombone in the public schools. He has been a bass guitarist and instructor in Chicago for a long time. After studying jazz expression with David Bloom at the Bloom School Of Jazz he went on for 17 years to teach ensemble classes with an emphasis on improvisation skills.

Victoria Witmer is a viola, violin, and chamber music teacher who prioritizes the needs of each individual student. She teaches with the objectives of enhancing performance capabilities and inspiring a love of music. Performing around the world, Victoria has been a member of Lincoln Center Stage piano quintets and the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland.

NYC based Violinist MAYA SHIRAISHI has been a member of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 2007, and joined the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra in 2022. After receiving her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in 2001, she became a member of the Honolulu Symphony and Hawaii Opera Theatre.

Music teaching has been my passion for 50 years. I love seeing students develop in their confidence, skill, and problem-solving ability. Since retiring from playing violin in professional orchestras, music teaching has been my focus, with students age 4 to 84.

Volkan Orhon is a professor of double bass at the University of Iowa. Native of Turkey, he was a prizewinner in the Concert Artists Guild, the co­-first prize at the International Society of Bassists Competitions, and was the first bassist ever to win the grand prize at the American String Teacher’s Association Solo Competition.

I am a professional modern and Baroque violinist and a passionate violin teacher. I have more than 22 years of experience in violin performance and I have been a teacher for more than 8 years having taught students of all levels and ages ranging between 5 and 65.

With over 20 years of experience Jacques Gadway continues to perform and teach violin. Gadway is a graduate of the University of Miami's Frost School of Music where he received a Bachelors in Instrumental performance and minor in Chemistry.

Hello friends, please contact me about availability before booking the lessons, the schedule on the website is approximate. (the free 15-minute lesson is available as a first trial lesson) I'm a violinist with 16 years of teaching experience, working with students of all ages/ levels.

My name is Matt Gleason and I am a multi-instrumentalist music composer and producer. I have been teaching electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, and drums for 7 years now and have received a Bachelor of Science in Music from the University of Colorado Denver. I started learning music when I was five years old on the piano, and have been in love ever since.