Violin with Crosby C.

Hello! I play anything from bluegrass to jazz and in between. I love teaching the violin in a practical manner and one that gets you playing with people (in a band, jam group, or orchestra) as efficiently as possible. I can teach improvisation, theory, playing with effects pedals, maintaining and honing a healthy and sustainable way to play the violin, backing up a soloist and grooving, getting those classical etudes in top form, or just about anything you need to work on. I played in the orchestra at St. Mary's College of Maryland from 2012-2016 and graduated with my degree in Music and a minor in Education. I played in the Chesapeake Orchestra for the summers of 2013 and 2014. I studied abroad in Dublin, Ireland in the fall of 2015 and gained interest in improvisational genres. I started playing with effect pedals and played in a jam band once I got back to the states. I graduated in 2016 and worked as an audio engineer for awhile and had to essentially reteach myself the violin in a more practical manner. Classical training gets you stuck in a box a lot of the time and being able to know the instrument more completely and not in terms of positions and such is very freeing! Ever since I have been teaching myself new genres and currently I am very into chopping and playing rhythmically on the violin. I have played for 19 years and I also play guitar and sing some.