Virginia Tech String Project
Our Mission: To provide high quality and inclusive string music education for our community; and to prepare Virginia Tech's undergraduate music students for success in their futures as music educators.
History: The Virginia Tech String Project, founded in 2007, is the signature community enrichment program for the department of music at Virginia Tech. Our program is a member of the National String Project Consortium, founded in 1998, to address a national string teacher shortage through a plan that establishes teacher-training programs at universities throughout the country. Master string teachers work with Virginia Tech’s undergraduate music students to teach all classes. We fill a significant gap in the public-school system curriculum by providing beginning lessons in strings to students in the 3rd and 4th grades as well as providing a space for older students’ musical growth through multiple string orchestras for those with prior experience.
Resources
- Registration Link
- Handbook
- Radford at Belle Heth Location Schedule
- Youth Orchestra Audition information: Auditions are September 1st, 5-7pm in Squires 243. Violin, Viola, and Cello: Two Octave G Major, C Major, D Major, and One Octave D minor scales + sight reading
- Bass: Two Octave G Major, F Major, E Major, and One Octave D minor scales + sight reading
- Instrument rental plans are available through Greg Bump at Rocket Music.
Our Faculty
Director
Molly Wilkens-Reed
Alan Weinstein
Master Teacher
Yi-wen Evans
Student Teachers
Noah Blanco-Alcalá
Josie Chase
Martha Chen
Thomas Cummins (Assistant Director)
James Kim
Mazi Zachary
