For lesson opportunities, contact any of these amazing Colorado fiddle teachers.
Katie Glassman
Katie is one of the country’s most renowned and decorated Texas-style and swing fiddlers, as well as an accomplished songwriter, singer, and a highly sought after educator. Katie is a 4-time National Swing Fiddle Champion and 2-time National Divisional Champion, to mention a few of her accolades. For 6 years Katie toured and recorded with the renowned trio, The Western Flyers, winners of 2018 Ameripolitan Awards “Best Western Swing Group” and Western Music Association and the Academy of Western Artists “Western Swing Album of the Year” award for Wild Blue Yonder. As an educator, Katie is the founder, owner, and primary instructor at the online fiddle academy, FiddleSchool.com. Since Fiddle School opened in 2018, her thorough online curriculum has given fiddlers around the world the opportunity to learn, improve, and progress in Texas-style fiddling, western swing, and early jazz. Offering over 1,000 sequential instructional videos and countless webinars on fiddling and improvisation, Katie is also an innovator, creating a modern curriculum for a traditional American art form.
Celeste Johnson
Celeste owes her passion of fiddling to great teachers and an inspiring fiddle community. As a teacher, her mission is to pay it forward and perpetuate this great musical tradition. Celeste is a five-time national champion at the National Old Time Fiddle Contest, with titles in the Junior Junior, Junior, and Young Adult divisions. She is also the 2019 Walnut Valley Old Time Fiddle champion, the 2023 RockyGrass Fiddle champion, a two-time Rocky Mountain Regional Fiddle Champion, and a multiple-time Colorado State fiddle champion in her division. Her students have also gone on to win state and national titles. In addition to teaching, Celeste takes great pleasure in sharing her enthusiasm for fiddle through performing. She plays with a variety of bands whose repertoires include Western Swing, traditional swing, jazz manouche, country, and more. When she’s not playing music, she loves to read, travel, and pet cats. http://www.celestejohnsonmusic.com [email protected]
Larry Struble
I bring to my students a wealth of experiences from a very expansive background. My experience as a classical violinist includes the Denver Symphony (now the Colorado Symphony) as well as Concertmaster of the Colorado Ballet. When I was nine years old, my earliest fiddling experience was with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys in Dallas, Texas. My championships include Colorado State as well as National Champion in my age division. Most of my fiddling early on was by ear so it was a natural path for me to embrace the Suzuki rote approach to violin teaching. My early introduction to rote teaching was with Suzuki during a summer at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York. So when I walk on a stage to perform Mozart or Sally Goodin, I’m probably the only one who has played with both Ray Price and Pavarotti. I enjoy the challenge of teaching and look forward to assisting as many as possible.
Beth Remming
Beth Remming was born and raised in Rochester, NY, is a string teacher, and moved out to Denver, CO to be with family. She earned a bachelor’s degree in music education, certificate in music in special education and a masters degree in music all in New York and is certified in Colorado. Beth Remming is also a certified Suzuki teacher. and public school experience includes middle school and elementary school string teacher. She has received faculty service award from Hochstein School of Music and was also honored as Music Educator of the Year by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Since moving to Denver, Beth performs viola with the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, maintains private teaching studio which includes my young grandchildren on cello and viola, performs with guitarist, keyboard and vocalist, Nick Kaiser, in “Coloraduo”and plays viola with the Omicron Quartet in Denver. Beth is also a board member of COTFA.
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