Guest Conductor
Kasia Bugaj
Vivo Summer String Institute
Biography
Kasia Bugaj is an Associate Professor of Music Education at The Florida State University. At FSU, Dr. Bugaj teaches string techniques, string methods courses, and historical research; She is the director of the FSU Summer Orchestra Camp and the conductor of the Tallahassee Youth Orchestras Chamber Orchestra. Involved with the American String Teachers Association and the Florida Orchestra Association in many capacities, she is a frequent guest speaker, clinician trainer and conductor throughout the United States. In 2018-2019 she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland. In 2018 she was selected as the Collegiate Educator of the Year by the Florida Music Education Association.