Mimi Zweig is professor of violin at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and director of the Indiana University String Academy.
She joined the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music in 1976. Zweig studied with Louis Krasner, Samuel Kissel, Raphael Bronstein and Tadeusz Wroński. He was a member of the Syracuse Symphony, the American Symphony under Leopold Stokowski and the Indianapolis Symphony. He has developed pre-university string programmes in the United States since 1972. Zweig has given master classes and pedagogy workshops in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Israel, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and throughout Europe. Her innovative web-based teaching tool, Mimi Zweig StringPedagogy.com, is accessed all over the world. American Public Television aired the Emmy-nominated documentary Circling Around – The Violin Virtuosi, featuring IU String Academy students, in spring 2006. In 2019, Zweig received the Artist Teacher Award from the American String Teachers Association. His students have won prizes in numerous competitions.
