Mike Fedyszyn is a music educator and composer with more than 25 years of experience teaching instrumental music at all levels from elementary through post-secondary throughout the state of Wisconsin. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Education and a Master of Music in Music Education from the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Mike is the recipient of the Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Teacher Fellowship Award and is a two-time quarterfinalist for the GRAMMY Museum Music Educator Award. He is an active clinician, giving presentations on a number of topics in music education at state and national level conferences. His articles on music education have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Instrumentalist.