Peter 'Doc' Rolland has had a 41-year career as a professional fiddling entertainer and fiddle teacher that has kept him "young at heart." His early training on the violin was from his father Paul Rolland. With his father's encouragement, Peter applied his father's example to the genre of fiddling while he pursed his doctorate in mathematics. He organized classes and taught fiddling at five universities in the west. Through research into fiddling repertoires of elderly fiddlers supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Arizona Commission on the Arts he has preserved and purveyed Arizona's fiddling and authentic cowboy music traditions to audiences in the United States, Canada and Western Europe for over three decades. He has won numerous fiddle contests at the state and national level, and trained many fiddle champions and professional performers. In addition to gigging in many different genres (old-time fiddle, cowboy, bluegrass, traditional country, Celtic, etc), he does school workshops and residencies, teaches at fiddle camps and maintains a private teaching studio. He has operated a small violin shop and string instrument rental service since 1983. He has honed his skill as an arranger through 35 years of teaching fiddling classes, and Northeastern Music Publications, Inc. has published his folio of traditional fiddle tunes and cowboy songs arranged for school orchestra. As a music teacher he emphasizes freedom and ease of playing with good motion patterns and a relaxed balanced efficient technique, learning traditional tunes, making the fiddle talk, playing expressively, understanding style, diagnosing and analyzing technical problems, double stops, chord knowledge and understanding fiddle harmony. In 2009 he produced and released the DVD of Paul Rolland's film series "The Teaching of Action in String Playing" (www.paulrolland.net). In April-May of 2010 he did a teaching and performance tour of Germany, Belgium, England and Scotland. In Trossingen, Germany he was the featured clinician at a German Classroom String Teacher's conference and gave four workshops on American fiddling and how to incorporate it into the classroom. At the ESTA conference in Brugge, Belgium he presented a lecture/demonstration on both Rolland methods and American fiddling. ASTA published his article on fiddle teaching in the AST spring issue, 2011. Most recently he founded Rolland Fiddle Camp (www.peterrolland.com) which had its first annual summer camp in Colorado in 2011.

Ms. Kredel is a free-lance violist and private teacher in Fairfax, VA and former Orchestra Director of Greenbriar West Elementary School in Fairfax, VA. She was also Director of the Elementary String Instruction Program, North Carolina School for the Arts (a Paul Rolland Method program) and a viola student of Sally Peck. Nancy's NCSA Elementary String Program was named an Exemplary Program by MTNA. Ms. Kredel is the founder and first director of GMU's Paul Rolland Workshop. She has presented Rolland Pedagogy for public school in-service programs in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Oklahoma, and in the Washington, DC area. Along with Lynne Denig, she presented Paul Rolland Pedagogy in Hamburg, Germany in 2011, and at national ASTA conventions.

Lynne Denig is past Professor of Violin and Viola at Northern Michigan University. In Fairfax, VA, she maintains a private violin and viola studio where she is also co-owner of Frisch and Denig Custom-fitted Violin and Viola Chinrests (www.chinrests.com). Lynne is Founder and President-Emeritus of The Youth Orchestras of Fairfax (www.tyof.org). In 2008, she was given the Virginia String Teachers Association Service Award for her leadership as the chapter's president. In 2009, she was awarded the American String Teachers Citation for Leadership and Merit for co-creation of ASTA's Certificate Advancement Program. Lynne is director of the Rolland Workshop, and presented Rolland pedagogy in Hamburg, Germany with Nancy Kredel, at Peter Rolland's Fiddle Camp in Colorado, (www.peterrolland.com), and at ASTA conventions nationally with Nancy Kredel.

Dr. Michael Fanelli, musicologist, author, and bassist, is an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Northern Iowa and teaches double bass at Grinnell and Wartburg Colleges. He studied string pedagogy with Paul Rolland and served on his instructional staff at the University of Illinois Summer Youth Music program and as a research assistant on the Illinois String Research Project. His dissertation has been cited as a definitive study on Rolland. He is currently writing a book, "Paul Rolland: A Creative Life in String Teaching and Pedagogical Inquiry". He is a recipient of the ISTA Distinguished Service Award, and has presented and published for both national and international music organizations.

Lucy Manning teaches orchestra, violin, string methods, and coordinates the chamber music program as Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. The recipient of the 2007 Virginia String Teacher of the Year award from Virginia American String Teachers Association (VASTA), she regularly conducts and adjudicates school orchestra festivals throughout the United States. Dr. Manning brings extensive experience as a violinist, violist, and chamber musician to the podium. She is a former member of the Dallas Opera and Ballet Orchestras, Albany Symphony Orchestra, St. Cecilia Orchestra, Lake George Opera Festival Orchestra, and appeared as soloist with numerous other orchestras. Chamber music remains a priority, as she is the founder and former music director of the Saratoga Chamber Players in New York. Lucy has participated in conducting workshops and master classes led by Gustav Meier, Kenneth Keisler, Robert Page, and Donald Portnoy. She was assistant conductor of the University of South Carolina Symphony, Chamber, and Opera Orchestras, conducted in Beijing and recently in Madrid where she also presented a lecture/demonstration on the pedagogy of Paul Rolland. Author of Orchestral "Pops" Music: A Handbook, Lucy is a member of the Board of Directors of the Conductors Guild and president of VASTA.

Mary Alice Rich studied with Paul Rolland for four years as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. For her master's degree, she was appointed to be Mr. Rolland's teaching assistant, a position she held until his death in 1978. After completing her master's degree in Violin Performance under Sergiu Luca, Mary Alice went on to play in the Tulsa Philharmonic, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Dallas Opera Orchestra, and other professional ensembles. She taught violin at Texas A&M - Commerce for six years before joining the faculty of the Dallas Symphony-sponsored "Young Strings" Scholarship Program for African-American and Hispanic students. She also currently heads the community outreach program for the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra which provides low-cost lessons for underserved students. As an award-winning composer, her music has been performed throughout the United States and abroad. She enjoys writing for students and professionals, and her music is available through Neil A. Kjos, Wingert-Jones of J. W. Pepper, Latham Music, RBC, Fountain Park Music Publishing, SmartMusic, and her website: MaryAliceRich.com.

Nancy Thomas, Viola faculty at GMU's School of Music, is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA. She studied viola with Joseph de Pasquale, Karen Tuttle, and Richard Parnas, all of whom worked intensively with William Primrose. Thomas received a strong background in the Ivan Galamaian School of Violin Techniques from Prof. Rylands Nancy was a soloist with the Allentown Symphony, a finalist in the Philadelphia Orchestra Young Artists Competition, and a guest artist with faculty of both Cedar Crest and Muhlenberg Colleges, as well as the Craftsbury, VT before graduating from high school. At Curtis, Prof. Thomas studied orchestral string techniques with Normal Carol and chamber music with Mischa Schneider. Felix Galimir, and Karen Tuttle. Later she studied chamber music with Mstislav Rostropovitch and with members of the Guarneri Quartet. She also worked with Maren Ritscher, a student of Karen Tuttle, on the famous Tuttle coordination method. Prof. Thomas studied orchestral excerpts with Richard Field Rich, Richard Parnas, and Raphael Hillyer. At the age of 26, Prof. Thomas was accepted into the viola section of the National Symphony Orchestra. Within a year, she also joined the Manchester and National String Quartets. Currently Prof. Thomas continues to perform throughout the Washington DC area as a chamber musician and clinician. Prof. Thomas is a devoted teacher and clinician, and she has performed outreached sectionals and coachings in 15 states through the National Symphony's American Residency program. Prof. Thomas maintains a private studio in her home in addition to her duties at George Mason and the National Symphony, and she also coaches chamber music with the American Youth Philharmonic. In the summers, she teaches young violinists on solo and chamber repertoire for the National Symphony's Summer Music Institute.

Abigail Van Steenhuyse received degrees in violin performance from East Carolina University and University of Michigan. Her journey with the violin has taken her to England, Iceland, Scotland, Austria, the Czech Republic, France, and Canada, participating in various festivals and ensembles. Abigail has premiered new music and won numerous scholarships, awards, and concerto competitions including the Mary Ruth Hardy Violin Scholarship and the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. She currently is a member of the Wilmington and Long Bay Symphonies and has been teaching violin for ten years. The Alexander Technique has helped Abby to not only be able to play the violin without injury, but also how to monitor how she thinks and moves throughout her daily life. Abby is an AmSAT (American Society for the Alexander Technique, www.amsatonline.org) certified teacher of the Alexander Technique.

Dr. Mutschler is former Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, University of Miami, and Arizona State University. She is co-author of "The Teaching of Action in String Playing" and collaborated with Paul Rolland on the Illinois String Research Project film series. Dr. Mutschler is the 2009 recipient of the American String Teachers Association's Paul Rolland Lifetime Achievement Award.