Laurie Scott is Associate Professor of Music and Human Learning at The University of Texas at Austin. Additionally, she serves as the director of The University of Texas String Project. She is a guest clinician and conductor at state and national conventions speaking on string pedagogy, public school music education, orchestral bowing techniques and character development. Her articles have appeared in The American String Teacher, The American Suzuki Journal, and The Journal of Research in Music Education.Cornelia Watkins, teaches pedagogy at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music. She speaks frequently at conferences across the country, and is the author of Rosindust: Teaching, Learning, and Life from a Cellist's Perspective. She served as TexASTA's studio teaching chair for seven years and also served a two-year term as chair for ASTA's Committee on Studio Instruction.