Dana Meyer, founder and Artistic Director of Music City Strings, is a graduate of
the Cleveland Institute of Music and has been passionate about music education for
more than 40 years. Her dream was to create a program that would provide children
with the means to become confident, sensitive and beautiful artists. Music City Strings
was the result of this dream. An international competition winning group, Music City
Strings has toured Europe, China, Canada, Croatia and the US. The group has performed
over 30 concerts with Grammy-Award winning artists Vince Gill, Amy Grant, and Michael
W. Smith and has become a highly sought-after performing troupe. In addition to her
role as Artistic Director of Music City Strings, Mrs. Meyer has a robust private studio
in Franklin, Tennessee.
Mrs. Meyer is currently on the faculty of the Suzuki String Institute at the University
of Louisville in Kentucky and has held numerous prestigious faculty positions and
posts in such institutions as the Greater Washington Suzuki Institute, the Suzuki
Institute at PhoenixPhest! in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the South Carolina Suzuki Institute
at Furman University, the Fine Arts Student Academy in Nashville, New World School
of the Arts (Miami), Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina, Wintergreen
Performance Academy, Dillard High School of Performing Arts, the Middle Tennessee
State University Governor’s School of Music, and Tucson Chamber Music in the Mountains
in Tucson, Arizona. She has also been President of the Suzuki Association of South
Florida, President of the Middle Tennessee Suzuki Association, and was awarded teacher
of the year by the Nashville Area Music Teachers Association. Mrs. Meyer is currently
Auditions Coordinator for the Strings Division of the Nashville Area Music Teachers
Association.