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 For more than 30 years Jan Farrar-Royce has been a professional classical violist, fiddler and string teacher. She has coordinated, adjudicated and conducted several youth symphonies and festival orchestras and was the founder of Wallingford Festival Strings, Wallingford Summer Arts Camp and the Cheshire Community Music School. For two years she was the assistant conductor of the Bridgeport University Civic orchestra. She was the fiddler in The Reel Thing, the Sweetheart String Band and the PTA String Band and appeared as the on-stage fiddler for the Equity production of The Irish and How They Got That Way. Jan’s articles and reviews can be seen regularly in Fiddler, Sing Out! and Mel Bay’s On-line Fiddle Magazines and in the American String Teacher Association Journal.Jan keeps a busy schedule of giving fiddling workshops for school systems and music teacher conferences all over the country. She has taught graduate music education courses for several universities including The Hartt School, the Villanova Summer Strings Institute and at the Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camp for the Crane School of Music (SUNY). This summer Jan will return to Duquesne University to teach at the Strings w/o Boundaries Camp. Jan’s ability and experience teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses is supported by the number of universities for which she has been a returning instructor. Jan teaches the Music Education Methods class at Yale University and at Dodd Middle School in Cheshire, Connecticut. Jan has been chosen by Yamaha to be one of their first Certified String Educators, was one of MENC’s first On-line Orchestra MENTORS and has two articles in their current Spotlight on Teaching Orchestras. She has served on ASTA’s Alternative Styles committee and is highlighted in their DVD Teaching Alternative Styles in the Classroom. She is the current Past Present of the Connecticut chapter of ASTA. Jan is famous for her enthusiasm for showing string teachers and string students how including American fiddling and other Alternative Style genres (World Fiddling, Jazz and Rock music) can enhance their lessons and ensemble experiences. She can show you how including these genres won’t impose something more for you to do with your limited class and practice time, but will reinforce your present learning goals (including meeting all nine of the National Standards of Music Education) and expand your curriculum to new depths in fun ways. Her workshops and courses are all “fingers-on” and include reproducible lessons and resources for further investigation of the new ideas and tools that she will leave you with. As an experienced, professional and educational conductor Jan has amassed a lifetime of good repertoire to use with elementary, middle school, high school and honors string ensembles and full orchestras. Her precise baton technique and understanding of scores comes in part from her excellent conservatory education and experience conducting and performing in several professional symphony orchestras. See Jan's bio for more details in all the aspects of her carrer. References for are available upon request. |
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