Gail Rolland is a symphony cellist and has been an Orchestra teacher
in the Mesa (Arizona) Public Schools for 33 years. Her chosen area is
teaching Strings in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades.
Early in her career, Gail attended the Paul Rolland International String
Workshops in Cambridge, England and Lausanne, Switzerland. She has
used Rolland String Pedagogy extensively in her teaching and found it is especially applicable in the early years of instruction and beyond.
Gail has been part of the distinguished faculty at the George Mason University Rolland Workshops and was the Director of the 2016 and 2017 Paul Rolland String Pedagogy Conferences and Kids String Camp at Arizona State University. She has been an instructor with Lynne Denig for a Rolland Workshop in July 2016, in Madrid, Spain, presented a 2017 ASTA Conference session “Applying Rolland Pedagogy” with Nancy Kredel and taught Rolland principles for the cello at a Rolland Workshop in Brazil during the Fall of 2017 and at the UofI Young Strings on the Move Camp. She is married to Peter Rolland, Paul Rolland’s son. Together they have raised 6 children. Gail co-directed the Rolland Fiddle Camp during summers in Westcliffe, Colorado. Gail is also developing the Paul Rolland String Pedagogy Society and co-directed PRSPS Workshops 2022, 2023 and 2024.