Colorado Old Time Fiddlers' Association

The place for Fiddling in Colorado

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.
beth.remming@gmail.com

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.

Cody Stadelmaier

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

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. 

 

Vi Wickam

Vi Wickam - HeadshotFiddle Teacher: Vi Wickam

Town or area: Northern Colorado, Loveland, CO

Phone: 970-430-6381

Email : vi@wickam.net

Ages I teach: 6 and up

Method: My primary focus is to help my students develop a lifelong love of music and fiddling.

I enjoy contest fiddling, but do not believe that it is the end-all be-all of fiddling. I help my students become strong, grounded musicians, with a strong basis in the fundamentals.

I teach the melody of the fiddle tune before getting into variations, and I teach music theory from a practical standpoint.

Years Teaching: 25 years

Fiddling style/styles: Oldtime / Contest Style / Celtic / Texas Style / Swing / Blues

Web Page: http://www.vithefiddler.com/about/fiddle-lessons/