Dr. Anna Cromwell, violin, is Professional - In - Residence at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She has been on faculty at Minnesota State University in Mankato, Bravo! Summer String and Keyboard Institute, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. She has served as a guest clinician at Fiddler's Fair in Houston, Texas, and has recently given master classes at Truman State University, Southeast Missouri State University, and at the Bermuda School of Music in Hamilton, Bermuda. In addition to teaching, Dr. Cromwell is an avid performer and chamber musician. She has performed with cellist Dr. Mira Frisch on the chamber music series Sundays at Three, (MO) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, at the National Gallery of Bermuda, and at Bravo! Summer String and Keyboard Institute. In addition, Dr. Cromwell serves as the concertmaster of the Bowling Green Western Symphony Orchestra and will be featured as a soloist this season. Dr. Cromwell earned both her M.M. and D.M.A. under Sally O'Reilly at the University of Minnesota where she was a Dahl Fellowship recipient. She taught two summers at Meadowmount School of Music as Christian Teal's teaching assistant and served six years as a teaching assistant to Sally O'Reilly's private studio. In high school the Oklahoma native soloed with the Tulsa Philharmonic and graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts. She continued her studies at Rice University under Kathleen Winkler, and graduated from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University where she won the Concerto Competition, received the Jean Keller Heard Prize, and graduated summa cum laude. She has studied string pedagogy with Sally O'Reilly, and Suzuki pedagogy with Mark Bjork, She is a trained and registered Suzuki teacher books one through ten. Dr. Cromwell teaches in both the college and pre-college programs at WKU.