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Lauren Rioux is enthusiastically sought out for her teaching expertise and leads classes and workshops across the globe. In her private studio, she teaches a delightfully rowdy group of over thirty violinists, violists, and fiddlers ranging in age from 5 to 70.

Her online learning community www.JamWithLauren.com provides students the world over with access to her innovative curriculum and inimitable teaching style.

Lauren has toured the United States, Europe and the UK with Darol Anger and his Republic of Strings, as a duo with Brittany Haas, with Scott Nygaard and Crow Molly, and most recently with her husband Sten Isak.

Lauren is a proud Maine-iac, born in Portland and raised in East Machias. She graduated from University of Southern Maine with degrees in Violin Performance and Music Education on full-scholarship.

"What differentiates JamWithLauren from any other online program is Lauren's extraordinary ease and confidence as a teacher. She is comfortable in front of her virtual classroom and her enthusiasm and great care in teaching pedagogy is conveyed in her delivery. She is self-effacing, encouraging, funny, personable, positive and very clear. In these videos, we are in the hands of not only a masterful fiddle player but also a masterful teacher who understands how to break down a lesson in teachable moments and how to build meaning progressively through the arc of each lesson. This is a rare quality that only the most gifted teachers possess. Lauren steps into this elite group with JamWithLauren and fiddle players everywhere are the lucky beneficiaries." ~Carolyn, JwL student

"JamWithLauren is an amazingly well constructed curriculum whose purpose is not only to teach string players how to play standard fiddle repertoire, but also how to become better ensemble musicians. Lauren’s warm personality makes it fun — anyone would be lucky to have her as a teacher!" ~Natalie Haas, international cellist