Heide Riggs

With three decades of experience, I am a confident performer playing everything from classical to folk to popular music. I enjoy working with clients for the best experience possible and pour my heart into my work.

A Phoneix based violinist, Heide has performed for West Coast Music’s Impulse Band and renowned artists such as Michael Bulblé and David Foster, KYGO, GENTRI, Marie Osmond, Michael W. Smith, Josh Groban, and jazz violinist Regina Carter. Some of her favorite creative work is collaborating with other artists as a recording studio session player. As a Celtic fiddler, she is currently the tour fiddle player for internationally acclaimed Blaggards and has also performed with Dave Browne and Dave Rooney of The Black Donnelly’s, and Stephen Walsh at Trinity Bar in Dublin, Ireland. In the country music scene, Heide’s highlight performances include performing with DaisyTrain at Super Bowl XLIX Pepsi Hyped for Halftime Concert Series and as the VIP band for Alan Jackson, with TAD Management’s Nashville Gold History of Country Music Show, The Glen Campbell Story and Rhinestone Country, and Celtic Nation. Heide maintains a private teaching studio in Arizona and teaches lessons and fiddle classes online.

A classically trained violinist, Heide is Adjunct Faculty Strings for GCU, has received and accepted invitations to present masterclasses for universities, schools and youth orchestras and maintains her own private studio. Heide holds a Masters of Music Performance and Pedagogy from ASU School of Music where her most influential teachers included Danwen Jiang, Katie McLin, and the late William Magers. Heide studied in New York at Meadowmount Conservatory with Charles Avsharian and Skye Carmen, and in Minneapolis with Sally O’Reilly. She has performed classical and various styles for many symphonies, tribute shows, bands, and stage orchestras including Trans-Siberian Orchestra.