Tina Bergmann
Hailed by Pete Seeger as “the best hammered dulcimer player I’ve heard in my life,” Tina Bergmann has been performing concerts, and teaching workshops and private lessons from an early age. A fourth-generation musician, Bergmann began playing music at age eight, learning the mountain dulcimer from her mother in the aural tradition and learning the hammered dulcimer at the knee of West Virginia-native builder and performer Loy Swiger. Demonstrating gifts for both performance and teaching, she has been a featured performer across the United States, performing solo; as a duo with her husband, bassist Bryan Thomas; with her stringband Hu$hmoney; and as a featured soloist with Apollo’s Fire and Canadian early music group, La Nef. With Apollo’s Fire Tina has performed throughout the US and abroad, including mainstage appearances at the 58th Annual Ojai Music Festival in California; at Chautauqua Gatherings in Boulder, Colorado, and Chautauqua, New York; the Soka Center in LA and at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Montreal CAN, Snapes Maltings in Suffolk England, Belfast Ireland, and Dublin’s National Concert Hall, among others.
Instructing her first workshop at Cleveland State University at the age of 12, Tina went on to be in demand at festivals, music clubs and camps throughout the US. By the time she earned a BA in music education in 1994 she had a well-established and thriving private studio, had been planning and facilitating master classes and workshops, and was a featured instructor at weeklong camps in Kentucky, New York, Massachuses, Missouri, and North Carolina. Tina has been a Music Specialist at Hershey Montessori in Concord Township Ohio since 2001.
Tina is featured on 10 recordings and has authored two books, Bells in the High Tower, holiday music for the advanced beginner through advanced player, and Grooving & Growing-20 unusual jam tunes to light your fire. Information on private lessons & workshops, concert listings and merchandise can be found at her website, www.allroadsleadhome.com .