Eleonore Shults , Instructor
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Eleonore Shults began her music career in the first A.R.M.E.S. strings class and continued through the Fine Arts Center high school music program.  She earned a B.M. in Music Education and Viola Performance from the Eastman School of Music as well as a M.A. in Music Education and a M.M. in Viola Performance from The Ohio State University. 

Ms. Shults has taught middle and high school orchestras in New York, Ohio, and South Carolina.  For the past three years, she started and developed the high school orchestra program in New Albany, OH.  Under her direction, the New Albany High School Orchestra has won superior and best overall instrumental group festival ratings.  Ms. Shults has run and taught a successful private lesson studio incorporating both traditional and Suzuki philosophies as well as early childhood and community music programs in New York and Ohio.  She is an active performer as well as a teacher.  Ms. Shults has been the principal violist with the Central Ohio Symphony Orchestra for three years, and has performed with orchestras in South Carolina, North Carolina, New York, Vermont, and Ohio.