Mimi Butler
Private Studio Teacher, Lecturer, Author / Publisher

"...a valuable reference for any teacher that teaches privately, regardless of the size of the studio.  The information covered in this book is worthwhile towards improving all teaching situations."

—Roberta Warfield

Mimi Butler teaches violin and viola privately to 25 to 30 students weekly in her Haddonfield, NJ home.  Once a month, all of the students play in a  chamber music class. Mimi teaches undergraduate string methods in summers at Rutgers/Camden along with string classes at Bishop Eustace Prep and Camden Catholic High in Pennsauken, NJ.  With Pam Fay, violist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, Butler runs the "Summer String Festival," a two week day camp every July in Cherry Hill, NJ.

Mimi is the author/publisher of  "The Complete Guide to Running a Private Music Studio", "The Complete Guide to Making More Money in the Private Music Studio" and her latest "The Complete Guide to Raising Parents in the Private Music Studio". Butler has been conducting workshops on the books throughout the country and in Canada and a contributing writer for "Strad" magazine.

Butler was member-at-large for the National American String Teachers Association from 2001 - 2003. As a board member of New Jersey ASTA, she organizes an annual String Symposium at New Jersey City University. Along with three other string teachers, she helped to organize the state president’s retreat for National ASTA in Reston, Va., in July, 2000, and led the 2002 retreat in Nashville, Tenn., in July.