Student Master Classes
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Participate in an ASTA Student Master Class with instruction from an expert clinician at the 2025 National Conference!
In a 90-minute session, two students will each receive 40 minutes of one-on-one instruction.
Applications are DUE to Monday, November 4, 2024.
Apply in one of the following categories:
- Pre-Collegiate Violin
- Pre-Collegiate Viola
- Pre-Collegiate Cello
- Pre-Collegiate Double Bass
- Collegiate Violin
- Collegiate Viola
- Collegiate Cello
- Collegiate Double Bass
- All Level Eclectic Styles (solos or groups)
- All Level Chamber Music
BEFORE submitting your application, make sure to review the ASTA Student Master Class Application Guidelines
Prepare the following for your application:
- Please ensure you have determined what repertoire you would like to perform if selected. Include title, movement (if applicable), and composer.
- All applications must include an uploaded video file. *This video does NOT need to be a piece you intend to play for the class if selected.
- If applying for the Chamber Music or Eclectic Styles with a group, also include: Full name (first and last) for all students intending to participate in the ensemble/group and each student's instrument.
- All applications must include contact information for an ASTA Member Sponsor: a studio/private teacher, school teacher, or other sponsor that is a current ASTA member to sponsor your application and participation, if selected.
- If requested, ASTA will provide a collaborative pianist for the master class performance and a 30-minute preparation session prior to the master class performance.
Applications will be reviewed and notifications will be sent in December 2024.
Master Class performers will receive complimentary conference registration for their performance day and those under 18 will also receive 1 complimentary chaperone registration for the performance day. If you wish to attend additional conference days, paid registration will be required.
For questions about Master Class sessions, please email us at asta@astastrings.org.
2025 Student Master Class Clinicians
Pre-Collegiate Violin
Judy Bossuat-Gallic
Studio Teacher
Pre-Collegiate Viola
Andrea Priester Houde
West Virginia University
pre-collegiate cello
Kenneth Law
Main Street Music Studios
pre-collegiate double bass
Kieran J. Hanlon
State University of New York at Fredonia
Collegiate Violin
Kevin Lawrence
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Collegiate Viola
Braunwin Sheldrick
EAFIT University - Medellín, Colombia
Collegiate Cello
TBA
Collegiate Double Bass
TBA
All-Level Chamber Music
Tami Lee Hughes
The Legacy Collective
All-Level Eclectic Styles
Patti Kilroy
California State University, Los Angeles
Master Class Schedule
Thursday, March 20
10:00-11:30 AM - Collegiate Double Bass
12:00-1:30 PM - Collegiate Cello
2:00-3:30 PM - Collegiate Viola
Dr. Braunwin Sheldrick leads a dynamic career dedicated to both performing and teaching, having given recitals, master classes, and lectures across the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. She has released several CDs of Latin American music featuring the viola. A Rolland pedagogue, Braunwin is professor of viola at EAFIT University in Medellín, Colombia. Dr. Sheldrick holds degrees from McGill and Temple Universities, the Royal Academy of Music, and a DMA from the Eastman School of Music.
4:00-5:00 PM - Collegiate Violin
Kevin Lawrence has performed throughout the US and Europe, and given master classes across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Appointed to the faculty of the Meadowmount School by his teacher, Ivan Galamian, he taught there 14 summers. After several years as artistic director of Killington Music Festival, he founded Vermont's Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in 2004. He is currently Professor of Violin and string department chair at University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Friday, March 21
8:00-9:30 AM - All-Level Chamber Music
Since debuting as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, Tami Lee Hughes has extensively toured the United States, Europe, and Central America. After releasing her acclaimed solo album, Legacy, she created The Legacy Collective, a touring chamber ensemble that records and performs music of African-American composers. Additional performance credits include appearances as section violinist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Opera Orchestra, and Sphinx Virtuosi. Hughes is a summer violin faculty member at Interlochen.
10:00-11:30 AM - Pre-Collegiate Double Bass
Kieran J. Hanlon is Associate Professor of Bass and Jazz at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is also Section Bass with the Chautauqua Symphony (Acting Assistant Principal 2024 Season,) Principal Bass with the Erie Philharmonic, a substitute bassist for The Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and is a first call Jazz performer. Kieran studied at The Eastman School of Music and The University of Michigan.
12:00-1:30 PM - Pre-Collegiate Cello
Kenneth Law is cellist with the Main Street Chamber Players, and Davenport Chamber Players. Performances include Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and concerts in England, France, Scotland, Panama and Puerto Rico. He is a founding artist teacher at Main Street Music Studios in Fairfax, VA, and has degrees and diplomas from the Eastman School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, Peabody Conservatory, and The Juilliard School.
2:00-3:30 PM - Pre-Collegiate Viola
Andrea Priester Houde is Associate Professor of Viola at West Virginia University. She has given performances and masterclasses across the US and in South America, Europe, and Asia and serves on the viola faculty of Interlochen Arts Camp. Her recording, The American Viola, published by Albany Records, features early to contemporary American works for the viola, including the historic world premiere of the first American viola composition.
4:00-5:30 PM - Pre-Collegiate Violin
Judy Bossuat-Gallic has been a member and longtime participant in various boards both in Europe and the USA. This includes 16 years on the European Suzuki Board, the California and National ASTA Boards, the String Project Consortium Board, and most recently the Suzuki Training Committee Board. A graduate of Dr. Suzuki’s Matsumoto Talent Education Institute, her contact with Dr. Suzuki continued from 1974 through 1990. The most joyous aspect of her musical life revolves around teaching children ages 3-18!
Saturday, March 22
10:00-11:30 AM - All-Level Eclectic Styles
Violinist, educator, and recording artist Patti Kilroy is a uniquely modern-minded musician, most known for her stylistic versatility and her work with technology and violin extended techniques. Praised for her “intensely focused” playing by The New York Times, she uses her extensive performance résumé and experience with music running the stylistic gamut as tools in her work as an Associate Professor at California State University, Los Angeles. To learn more, visit pattikilroy.com.