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Elizabeth Howe
Elizabeth is the 2020 U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion and the winner of the 2016 Perth All-Scotland Fiddle Championship. Elizabeth’s early training came through a combination of Classical violin lessons and learning at fiddle workshops and camps. A formative moment came in the fall of 2016, when she spent a semester in Glasgow to study under fiddler Douglas Lawrence and experience the music culture of Scotland firsthand. She holds music education degrees from Berklee College of Music (B.M. 2017) and Ithaca College (M.M. 2022). She is a frequent staff member at camps and workshops such as Maine Fiddle Camp, Pinewoods Dance Camp, and the Boston Scottish Fiddle Club. Elizabeth teaches orchestra full time in Walpole, MA.
www.elizabethandbenanderson.com
Catherine Miller
Boston-based violinist Catherine Miller has been described musically as a “coalescing force.” She is consistently praised for her ability to blend harmonically with other musicians. As a performer in small groups, she enriches the overall sound to create something far greater than the sum of its parts.
After graduating from the University of Iowa with a degree in violin performance, Catherine was an active orchestral musician, classical freelancer, and private violin instructor. She also moonlighted at various folk dance and music events with the Barn Owl Band in central Iowa. Now in Boston, Catherine performs regularly in the New England area for English, Scottish, and contra dances.
Susie Petrov
Susie Petrov started Scottish dancing in Washington, DC in the summer of 1973 and went dancing every week with her high school classmates that next school year.
After finishing her piano studies at the Peabody Conservatory, Susie launched herself into her passion of researching, performing and teaching Scottish dance and music.
Susie had the opportunity to teach young Scots through 1990’s as a tutor for the Feis na Gael summer music courses in the north and west of Scotland. Here was a chance to combine her day job of music teacher with her night and summer work performing Scottish music! In 2000, Susie was a guest lecturer at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire in Glasgow.
Susie performs Scottish music for dances, Highland Balls, Ceilidhs and concerts with several groups of colleagues including her ensembles, Local Hero, Parcel of Rogues and the new group, High Drive.
She has been a certificated RSCDS dance teacher since 1982 and has taught dancing and tutored candidates in the USA, Canada and Europe. By day, she taught young people to sing and dance and be nice to each other as a Kodály-style classroom music teacher.
Susie has 15 recordings and two collections of Scottish music to her publication credit.
Ben Anderson
Ben Anderson is a modern Scottish cello player from the Boston area. After starting on classical, he fell in love with Scottish music during his years attending the Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School. Since then, he has continued learning at iconic camps such as the Pure Dead Brilliant fiddle weekend and the Boston States Fiddle Camp. Today, he most commonly performs with his sister as the duo Elizabeth and Ben Anderson, who together have performed from across New England to Scotland and France and released several albums. He also frequently plays for dances in the Boston area. As his day job, he works in software engineering.
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