Mrs. Faith Salander

Faith Salander is from Spring Valley, IL and has been playing the violin since she was 7 years old. She began under the direction of Katherine Roy for 11 years, and is currently studying with Indiana State University Professor, Dr. Erik Rohde. She has appeared as a soloist with the Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra, after winning the Junior Division of the Concerto Competition in January 2013 & the Senior Division in 2017. She has previously played in the Illinois Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Bloomington Normal Youth Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Wheaton Pops Orchestra, where she held the Assistant Principal 2nd Violin seat at age 13 and has continued to play in the 1st violin section in 2014, 2015, and 2017. She has also had solo performances with the Spring Valley Municipal Band, playing the Theme to Schindler’s List in 2015. This past summer 2019, Faith was a substitute violinist with different orchestras, such as: The Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra and the Beloit Janesville Symphony Orchestra. Over the years, Faith has enjoyed providing the community with local concerts, accompaniments, performing in duets, string trios, chamber groups as well as performing for many other special events, such as the Maud Powell Festival, recitals, holiday concerts and weddings. In 2014, Faith completed a video project in which she played the music in the first 3 Suzuki books to assist beginning and young violin students by using the videos as a guide and reference for posture, technique and tone and posted them on her YouTube channel “Faithfulviolin”. She has been a violin instructor for 5 years, and continues to enjoy teaching her students. She loves sharing her music with audiences, and hopes to share that joy with everyone she comes in contact with.