Virginia Tech String Project

Our Mission:

To provide high quality and inclusive string music education for our communitity and to prepare Virginia Tech's undergraduate and graduate music students for success in their futures as music educators.

The award-winning Virginia Tech String Project, founded in 2007, is the signature community enrichment program for the music program 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.

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Academic Year

Instructor teaching a class to grade school students

Virginia Tech String Project 2025/26 registration opens in August 2025

Check back in August for fall 2025 registration vor violin, viola, cello, double bass, and guitar classes.
Instrument rental plans are available through Greg Bump at Rocket Music.
2023-24 VTSP Handbook

Summer Camp

Three campers pose with their string instruments.

Summer 2025 registration is open now.

SPONSOR A CAMPER

$15 covers the cost of instrument rental for a brand new string player to use at exploration camp
$60 provides a full scholarship for a brand new string player to experience learning the string instrument of their choice
$155 provides a full tuition scholarship for an advancing string player to participate in our summer intensive