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Laurie Niles

Pasadena, California
Phone: 626-793-6577

Violinist.com blog: http://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie
Personal website: http://www.violinist.com/

Laurie Niles founded Violinist.com on December 25, 1996

Cellist Pablo Casals once said, “Maybe it is music that will save the world,” and Laurie Niles believes, “Maybe it is the Internet that will save classical music.”

Thus the birth of Violinist.com, which Laurie founded with her husband, Robert, in 1996. The website offered Laurie the perfect opportunity to blend her skills as a formally trained professional violinist and a former daily newspaper reporter.

Over the past decade, Violinist.com has proven that the Internet can draw together people from all over the world who love classical music, and that it can inflame their passion for it. The site attracts more than 100,000 absolute unique visitors each month, from teens in Kansas blogging about a Suzuki festival to professionals in the Far East sharing practice tips.

Laurie lives in Pasadena, Calif., where she maintains a private studio of students, as well as teaches 50 first-graders in the Pasadena public schools, under a city-funded grant. She free-lances in LA, and has played for the Pasadena, New West, Omaha (Neb.) and the Colorado Springs Symphonies. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University and a Master of Arts degree in Journalism from Indiana University, where she also studied violin.

Laurie loves to write profiles, and on this page are a number that she has written for this site.

E-mail: Send a message to Laurie Niles.

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Mark O'Connor's method books -- released this week -- teach students using many styles of American music. Enter to win a set of the books this week, on Violinist.com. Photo: Deanna Rose