Ashley Crawford teaches violin, viola at the South Florida Conservatory of Music in Hollywood, FL.
Ashley Crawford is a Miami violinist who teaches violin and viola at SFLCM. She has been teaching since 2018, in one-on-one lessons and in classrooms, with students from preschool through college age. She is also a teaching artist with Miami Music Project, where she co-teaches a mixed ensemble of young students.
Ashley holds a Master of Music in violin performance from Florida International University, where she was a graduate teaching assistant in string performance, music history, and bibliography, and a Bachelor of Music in violin performance from Shenandoah Conservatory, where she was concertmaster of the Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra. She is concertmaster and string personnel manager of the Broward Pops Orchestra, concertmaster of the North Bay Chamber Orchestra, and co-concertmaster of the Miami Pixel Symphony, and a founding member of the Hazori String Quartet and the Miami Pixel String Quartet. She has been concertmaster of the Monteux Festival Orchestra, toured Argentina in 2023, recorded and toured as a violinist for Warner Music Latina with Yandel, and won first prize in the 2021 Charleston International Music Competition.
Ashley teaches violin from beginner to advanced levels and viola from beginner to intermediate, and she starts children at around age four, depending on when each student is ready. Beginners work through the Suzuki books with scale sheets she writes for each student, and advancing players add Wohlfahrt, Kreutzer, and Rode etudes along with technique books by Flesch, Galamian, and Sevcik. Book a trial lesson with Ashley to start violin or viola with an active Miami concertmaster.
Trial lessons are paid, one-on-one sessions — Special trial price from $40.