Playing The String Game – Phyllis Young

Playing the String Game is a unique how-to book designed for the busy string teacher. Packed with hundreds of creative teaching ideas, it can be used with any string teaching method.

With more than thirty years of experience teaching students, Phyllis Young has created an amazing compendium of strategies that are grounded in strong pedagogical theory. Broken up into hundreds of “games,” her lessons help children (and adults) visualize the exact methods being taught. Playing the String Game is an invaluable aid for anyone teaching music for the first time, or for those looking for a new approach.

PHYLLIS YOUNG is acclaimed worldwide as a leading string pedagogue. She has presented master classes and string teacher workshops in universities, conservatories, and the string teachers associations in 46 states and 32 countries on six continents. She is the Parker C. Fielder Regents Professor Emerita in Music at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to teaching cello performance, siring pedagogy, and cello choir, for thirty-five years she directed the University of Texas String Project, a internationally recognized string teacher program, which has served as a model for many other string programs in the United States and abroad.

She has served as the National President of the American String Teachers Association, which honored her with its 1984 Distinguished String Teachers Award and its 2002 Paul Rolland Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000 Indiana University granted her the Eva Janzer Award and the title "Grande Dame du Violoncelle." In 2006 the Texas Chapter of ASTA established the Phyllis Young Studio Teacher Award to be given annually in her honor. She is an Honorary Member of the European String Teachers Association (British Branch) and is listed in "Who's Who of America."