Private Music Studio Guides by Mimi Butler

Mimi Butler: Biography

Mimi Butler

Private Studio teacher, Author, Clinician

"I had students stopping me in the hall to tell me how valuable they found your information.
Your presentations were lively, good humored, inspiring, and information-packed all at once.
Throughout the two sessions, you had the rapt attention of graduate student and undergrad
all."

--Dr. Gerald Fischbach

"...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. 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 Butler 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 "The Complete Guide to Raising Parents in the Private Music Studio". Mimi Butler is a contributing writer for “Strad” magazine.

Butler has been conducting clinics on the books throughout the country and in Canada since 1999. In 2008, clinics include Alaska State Music Teacher’s Convention, University of Maryland and Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, Connecticut. Along with Sam Ruttenberg, classical and jazz drummer, Butler offers a private drum studio clinic.

Mimi 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.