KASTA SUMMER CONFERENCE
The KASTA Summer Conference provides string teachers of all levels and genres with professional development. This summer’s workshop will be held in Lawrence Kansas, with featured clinician, Jeremy Woolstenhulme as well as a reading session and clinics from other well-known Kansas teachers. A student honor orchestra will again be available for your students.
2026 Kansas ASTA Summer Workshop
featuring Jeremy Woolstenhulme
Friday, July 31st and Saturday, August 1st
at Lawrence High School, Lawrence KS
Jeremy Woolstenhulme holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Brigham Young University and a Master of Arts in Cello Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
He currently serves as the orchestra director at Northview High School in the Fulton County School District (Georgia), where he leads four orchestras. Under his direction, the Northview Chamber Orchestra earned first place at the 2025 ASTA National Orchestra Festival, was invited to perform at the 2024 Georgia Music Educators Association (GMEA) Conference, and appeared at the prestigious Midwest Clinic in 2022.
An accomplished cellist, Mr. Woolstenhulme is the principal cellist of the Alpharetta Symphony Orchestra. Prior to relocating to Georgia, he performed for two decades with the Las Vegas Philharmonic and regularly appeared with renowned artists and entertainers on the Las Vegas Strip.
Before his move in 2020, Mr. Woolstenhulme spent 17 years as orchestra director at Hyde Park Middle School in Las Vegas, Nevada. His award-winning ensembles performed at the Midwest Clinic and ASTA National Conference, earning first place at the ASTA National Orchestra Festival in both 2015 and 2019. He also led student tours across the United States and Europe, founded the Las Vegas String Workshop (a weeklong summer camp for young string players), and conducted the Las Vegas Youth Orchestras.
As a published and commissioned composer, Mr. Woolstenhulme has an extensive catalog of original and arranged works performed worldwide. His music is frequently selected as a J.W. Pepper Editors’ Choice and appears on many state festival repertoire lists. He is co-author of the widely used String Basics series (Books 1–3) and the creator of instructional supplements such as Vibrato Basics, Intonation Basics, and numerous performance collections. His compositions are designed to teach, challenge, and inspire. They are especially tailored for middle and high school orchestras.
Thank you to all of our past Summer Conference hosts, sponsors, and presenters
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To register, complete the form below and select your registration type. You do not need to be an ASTA member to register for this event. Spread the word and bring your friends!
Registration fee options include:
Two Day ASTA Member Rate: $140.00
Two Day Non-ASTA Member Rate: $170.00
Single Day Rate: $85.00
Student Rate (High School, Collegiate and First Year Teacher): $30.00 -
8:00-8:45
Registration, coffee and bagels, meet and greet.8:50-9:50
Advanced String Techniques: From Patterns to Positions -Woolstenhulme
9:55-10:45Making a Music Life for the student violist -Blair Williams
Smandl vs Rabbath: Who’s Using What, and What is the Big Deal? Two Opposing Double Bass Pedagogies and How to apply them -McGrory & Ozakinci
10:55 - 11:45
Create your Orchestra’s Image with Canva - Kathy MansPractices for Longevity - Dena Berquist
11:45-1:15
Lunch (on your own)1:15-2:15
Sequential Vibrato Instruction in the String Classroom - Woolstenhulme
2:20-3:40
Reading Session4:00
Student Orchestra Performance
5:30
BBQ & Social Time - bring your instrument to read -
8:15-8:45
Social Time/Coffee
8:50-9:50
“We Learned this Already!” Back to the Basics for Students Who Already “Know it All” - Woolstenhulme9:55-10:45
10 Steps to a Beautiful RIght Hand: Setting Your Beginners up for Success! - Frances OareSelf-Publishing with ArrangeMe - Zeleski & Bernard
10:55-11:45
We Just Want to Play!": Ways ti Organize and Administer a Schol Orchestra Program to Keep Time for Fun! - Blair Williams11:45-1:15
Lunch
1:15-2:15
String Players vs. Rhythm: Let the Battle Begin! - Woolstenhulme2:20-3:40
Conducting Masterclass - Dr. Mark Laycock
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Past Summer Conference Clinicians
2025 - Dr. Michael Hopkins: Professor of Music Education at the University of Michigan
2024 - Dr. David Pope: Associate Professor of Music Education at the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Performing Arts.
2023 - Dr. Rebecca MacLeod: Professor of Music Education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, author of Teaching Strings in Today’s Classroom, Director of the Lillian Rauch Beginning Strings Program and the Peck Alumni Leadership Program, President of National ASTA.
2022 - Jim Palmer: editor, arranger, and clinician for Alfred Music; Orchestra Director and Fine Arts Department Chairman at Allatoona High School in Acworth, Georgia; Music Director for the Youth Orchestras of Greater Columbus in Columbus, Georgia.
2021 - Dr. Brenda Brenner: Associate Professor of Music (Music Education), Jacobs School of Music, University of Indiana, Bloomington.
2020 - Cancelled (COVID Pandemic)
2019 - Bob Phillips: co-author of the Sound Innovation method book series; renowned string pedagogue, composer, authors, teacher trainer, and conductor.
2018 - Dr. Christopher Selby: author of Habits of a Successful Orchestra Director, Music Theory for the Successful String Musician, and co-author of the Habits of a Successful String Musician series; Director of Orchestras, School for the Arts in Charleston, South Carolina.
2017 - Dr. Robert Gillespie: co-author of the Essential Elements 2000 for Strings method book series; Professor Emeritus of Music Education, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Past Summer Conference Clinicians
2024 - Dr. David Pope: Associate Professor of Music Education at the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Performing Arts.
2023 - Dr. Rebecca MacLeod: Professor of Music Education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, author of Teaching Strings in Today’s Classroom, Director of the Lillian Rauch Beginning Strings Program and the Peck Alumni Leadership Program, President of National ASTA.
2022 - Jim Palmer: editor, arranger, and clinician for Alfred Music; Orchestra Director and Fine Arts Department Chairman at Allatoona High School in Acworth, Georgia; Music Director for the Youth Orchestras of Greater Columbus in Columbus, Georgia.
2021 - Dr. Brenda Brenner: Associate Professor of Music (Music Education), Jacobs School of Music, University of Indiana, Bloomington.
2020 - Cancelled (COVID Pandemic)
2019 - Bob Phillips: co-author of the Sound Innovation method book series; renowned string pedagogue, composer, authors, teacher trainer, and conductor.
2018 - Dr. Christopher Selby: author of Habits of a Successful Orchestra Director, Music Theory for the Successful String Musician, and co-author of the Habits of a Successful String Musician series; Director of Orchestras, School for the Arts in Charleston, South Carolina.
2017 - Dr. Robert Gillespie: co-author of the Essential Elements 2000 for Strings method book series; Professor Emeritus of Music Education, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.