Tampa Bay Area's own fiddle virtuoso and fiddle coach, Elan Chalford...

Raise Your Fiddle Performance to the Next Level

 

Free Fiddle Instruction

See what one Tampa fiddle student says who didn't take sessons from me:

A friend whom I work with in Tampa took lessons with you the same time I was taking lessons from different music teachers.  I saw how much more she advanced and it's obvious that your lessons were much more effective than the lessons I had. Karina Cobb

Now, here's where I parade my credentials.

Short version

Florida State Champion Fiddler,
Twin Fiddle Championship;
many students who are first prize winners,
and play in hot bands;

Master of Music in Composition and Violin;
produced four cassette albums, five CD's, a video fiddle lesson
featured soloist in bluegrass bands, contradance bands,
symphony orchestras, yada, yada, yada.

 

 

See my contact info just to the left. Call or email.

 

More extensive Biographical Sketch

Violinist, fiddler and composer, Elan Chalford, has extensive accomplishment in musical theater, opera, orchestral and chamber music concerts.

As a stage performer, he has performed across the musical spectrum in a wide variety of settings, both "legit" and "improv". These include popular music, folk and acoustic, country and western, rock and roll, bluegrass, jazz and cabaret.

He has played the stage fiddler in Foxfire, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Fiddler on the Roof, Phantom of the Opera, A Christmas Carol, Robber Bridegroom and Die Fleidermaus.

Additionally he has led, as Concertmaster, the orchestras for South Pacific, The Mikado, A Most Happy Fellow, HMS Pinafore.
Concertmaster experience includes leading the Clearwater Symphony Orchestra, The Masters' Chamber Orchestra, The Richey Community Symphony and The Summit Orchestra and Singers.

Fiddle awards include First Prize in the Florida State Fiddlers' Contest and First Prize in the Twin Fiddle Division.

He has produced and recorded fiddle albums entitled, Fluke, Don't Bet Your Money on the Shanghai, A Fiddler's Year, Unhewn Quartz, Elan Go Brag, Top 10 Fiddle Tunes, Touch Lia Fal and Lia Fal Live at the Iron Horse.

Featured Presenter for the Florida Humanities Conference in Blues Fiddling, at Great Explorations in Westward Ho the Fiddler.

Current project explores the healing effects of the subtle energy aspect of music.