2004 Conference Presenter

Robert Gillespie
Middle School Orchestra Conductor

Bob Gillespie�Middle School Orchestra Conductor

Bob Gillespie, professor of music, is responsible for string teacher training at The Ohio State University, which has one of the largest and most extensive string pedagogy degree programs in the nation. Dr. Gillespie is national President-Elect of the American String Teachers Association. He is a frequent guest conductor of All-State, Region, and festival orchestras throughout the country and Europe, and he has presented string teacher sessions, workshops, and conducted concerts at national and state music educator conferences in forty-three states and Canada.

His string education articles appear frequently in all the major music journals. He is co-author of the Hal Leonard string method book series, Essential Elements for Strings, Essential Elements 2000 for Strings, and Getting Started: Strolling Strings for MENC. He is also co-author of the new Oxford University Press book: Strategies for Teaching Strings: Building A Successful School Orchestra Program.

He received the Distinguished Scholar award given by his faculty colleagues in 2002-2003 in the School of Music at Ohio State University.

In summers, Dr. Gillespie directs the OSU Midwest Summer String Teacher Conference, one of the largest string/orchestra teacher training workshops in the country. Dr. Gillespie is a string education clinician for Scherl & Roth String Instruments, a division of United Musical Instruments Corporation. He is past president of the Ohio String Teachers Association. In Columbus, he conducts the Columbus Symphony Junior Strings Youth Orchestra and is a performing violinist in the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra.