Bob
Gillespie, professor of music, is responsible for string
teacher training at The Ohio State University,
which has one of the largest and most extensive string
pedagogy degree programs in the nation.
Dr. Gillespie
is the immediate past national president of the American
String Teachers Association and the Ohio String Teachers
Association. He is a frequent guest conductor of All-State,
Region, and festival orchestras throughout the country
and Europe. He has presented string teacher sessions,
workshops, and conducted concerts at national and state
music educator conferences in forty-four states and Canada
and Europe. His string education articles appear frequently
in the major music journals.
Bob is co-author of the Hal
Leonard string method book series, "Essential Elements
for Strings", "Essential Elements 2000 for
Strings",
and "Getting Started: Strolling Strings" for
MENC. He is co-author
of the series Teaching Music through Performance in Orchestra,
and the new Oxford University Press book: "Strategies
for Teaching Strings:
Building A Successful School Orchestra
Program", and the new DVD series, "String Clinics
to Go."
Dr. Gillespie received the School of Music at Ohio
State University Distinguished Scholar award from faculty
colleagues in
2002-2003. He is a string education clinician
for Scherl & Roth String Instruments. In summers,
he directs the OSU
String Teacher Workshop, one of the
largest string/orchestra teacher training workshops in
the country, and the new Ohio
State University Texas String Teacher Workshop. In addition, he directs the OSU
Morning String Student Workshop. During the year,
Dr. Gillespie conducts the Columbus
Symphony Chamber Strings Youth Orchestra and
is a performing violinist in the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra.
Audio
samples from the
Columbus Symphony
Chamber Strings Youth
Orchestra:
Suite
for String Orchestra
1st Movement (1:00)
2nd Movement (1:07)
4th Movement (2:53)
A
Pirate's Legend (4:09)
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