Celeste Myall
Celeste Myall is the String Crossings Director and Adjunct Instructor of Music (Violin) at the Belmont University School of Music. Ms. Myall teaches private applied violin courses and chamber music and performs with the Belmont Camerata.
Ms. Myall earned her Master of Music degree at the Manhattan School of Music as a scholarship student of Raphael Bronstein and her Bachelor of Music degree(with highest honors) at the University of Kansas. With her initial violin studies in Tulsa, Oklahoma with Dr. Tosca Berger Kramer, Ms. Myall has taken subsequent studies with Philip Ruder, former concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony, and with Marilyn McDonald at the Baroque Performance Institute, Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Ms. Myall has taught on the faculty of University of Alaska--Fairbanks Summer Fine Arts Camp, performed in the Festival of Two Worlds Orchestra in Charleston, SC and Spoleto, Italy, and served for fifteen years as concertmaster of the Abilene Philharmonic. Before moving to Nashville in 2001, she was the chairman of the music performance department at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, where she taught violin for 23 years. She also taught violin at Abilene Christian University and conducted the Abilene Collegiate Orchestra. Founder of the Abilene Youth Orchestra, Ms. Myall continues to conduct string clinics and region orchestras throughout the state of Texas. Ms. Myall currently performs with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and other orchestras throughout the region. She is the author of the violin chapter in the book The Instrumental Resource.
Contact Information: (615) 460-5400 ext. 1730 or myallc@mail.belmont.edu
