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About
Shawn "Pops" Foster teaches beginning, intermediate and early advanced violin for children, teen and adult students. Pops has experience teaching Suzuki Method and Marc O'Connor Method. For the past five years, he has taught a range of styles --from classical to bluegrass, Western Swing and country.
Pops was a newspaper reporter for more than ten years. He was an attorney for fifteen years. In all that time, in his heart, he was always a musician.
Now Pops splits his time between teaching, rehearsing and performing. He plays music all over Utah and across the West playing fifty to sixty gigs a year. Pops offers lessons at a home studio in downtown Salt Lake City, studio space in Sandy, and a limited number in students' homes.
Overview
Hired 1 time
Serves Salt Lake City, UT
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5 years in business
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Interested musical styles
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Classical
Fiddle
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Earl C.
Aug 17, 2026
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I had my 1st lesson with Shawn & im more excited than ever to learn the fiddle. Shawn is very patient and helped me understand the fiddle easily for my 1st lesson, im looking forward to what a year or two worth of these lessons will bring!!
Details: 26 - 44 years old • No formal training • No, the student cannot read music • Classical violin • Classical • What the teacher recommends • Yes, the student has a violin • 60 minutes • At the pro’s location • My home, venue, etc.
Violin Lessons
Louann S.
Mar 14, 2026
Shawn taught my daughter violin because she was playing in her school orchestra . He was a great teacher and also jntroduced my daughter to traditional tunes like Old Joe Clark
