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.

Cody teaches classical violin and fiddling, starting classical students out with technique and note-reading, the traditional method.  For fiddle students the same emphasis on technique is combined with learning by a choice of ear, tablature or note-reading (sheet music).  She has 27 years of experience, including orchestral, quartet and old-time fiddling.

Cody is the 2016 National Adult Fiddle Champion.

Cody Stadelmaier
Fort Collins, CO
Website: www.codysviolinstudio.com
Email: cjfiddle@msn.com
Phone: 970-219-0796