Tips, tricks, exercises to help keep your violin and viola students in a great position, set-up. This session will work on instrument position, bow hold, proper sitting position and playing exercises for application.
Nicole DeGuire
- Biographical Information
Nicole DeGuire is Associate Director of Orchestras at Carmel High School, and an avid free-lance violinist with numerous orchestras across the state of Indiana. Earning her B.M. in Violin Performance with Honors at Butler University, she went on to complete her M.M. in Violin Performance and Literature, and an Orchestral Studies Diploma from The Eastman School of Music. Teachers include Charles Castleman, Ilya Kaler, Lisa Brooks, Davis Brooks, Larry Shapiro, Geoffrey Applegate and Paul Kantor. Previously, she served as Director of Orchestras at Fishers High School. Her groups earned gold ratings along with “With Distinction” at both ISSMA District and State Qualifications. It was under her direction that the FHS Symphony Orchestra made ISSMA State Finals for the first time in 2017.
Nicole has extensive orchestral experience performing with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and the Ft. Wayne Philharmonic. In addition to her orchestral performances, Nicole also loves playing chamber music, whenever possible. Ms. DeGuire is the Indiana ASTA All-State Orchestra Coordinator and violin faculty for the Music For All National Festival & Summer Symposium. She maintains an active private violin/viola/piano studio, serves as a guest clinician/coach for middle and high school orchestras, and has adjudicated many events. Nicole was an ISSMA State Board Member from 2017-2020, and was also the 2020 Indiana ASTA High School Orchestra Teacher of the Year.