Dustin Cunningham teaches violin in Houston and surrounding areas. His passion is to focus on enhancing a musician’s personal voice on the violin and opening them up to alternative ideas in phrasing and colors. Dustin began teaching violin by volunteering as a beginner group instructor in the Klein ISD 5th Grade Strings program while in high school, and continued on with the Touch of Music Program in 2017 and with his own students since 2015. He began studying the violin in school at the age of 10. Since then, he has been inseparable from his violin and making music. Dustin has played in orchestras and ensembles throughout Houston and the United States, including on such stages as Sarofim Hall, the Moores Opera House, and The Grand 1984 Opera House, at Lincoln Center Square in New York City, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He has studied with Dr. Jackson Guillen of Terra Nostra Ensemble, Dr. Javier Pinell, professor of violin at Sam Houston State University, and currently with Dr. Kirsten Yon at the University of Houston. He loves playing chamber music, watching a good musical (or playing in one), singing along in the car, eating chocolate covered almonds, and relaxing with a nice glass of chocolate milk after a long day.
