b'Asiat (Ace) AliConductor, Vermont Youth StringsAsiat Ali is the String Instructor for thehas performed with the Vermont Symphony Essex Junction Public Schools where heOrchestra, the Dartmouth Symphony teaches beginning through middle schoolOrchestra, the Vermont Philharmonic strings and conducts the Essex High SchoolOrchestra, the University of Vermont Orchestra. A member of the VermontOrchestra and the Burlington Choral Youth Orchestra Associations artistic staff,Society. he currently directs the Vermont YouthAsiat began his violin instruction in the Strings, and he is the former director of thethird grade with Melissa Brown in the same beginning string ensemble Presto. He alsoschool system where he now teaches. At served as interim conductor of the Vermontthe University of Vermont, he earned his Youth Sinfonia. He has guest conductedViolin Performance Degree as a student district string orchestras in Vermont, Newof Thomas and Evelyn Read. He then Hampshire, and New York. In addition, hecontinued his violin studies for two years teaches a private studio of violin and violawith Phillipe Quesnel at the Conservatoire students. As a violinist, Asiat is a memberNational de Region in Rouen, France.of the Burlington Chamber Orchestra and 17'