Kathleen Nesbitt
Kathleen Nesbitt is an Irish fiddle player and teacher. She is the mother of famous Irish fiddler Máiréad Nesbitt.

Background
Kathleen Nesbitt began teaching fiddle in 1967 and is among the most well known music teachers in Ireland.  In 1983, she began teaching an intensive master class at Scoil Éigse.  She has travelled internationally performing in the US, Canada, Iceland and France.  Since 1990, she has taught at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient.

Nesbitt currently serves as assessor and lecturer of Traditional Irish music at the Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann.

Awards
Nesbitt is the winner of the Oireachtas Gold Medal and also the winner of the Oireachtas duet competition with her husband John.

Books
Fidil-Irish Fiddle Tutorial, (2002)

References
 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Irish women fiddlers
21st-century Irish fiddlers
20th-century Irish fiddlers
20th-century Irish women musicians
21st-century Irish women musicians
Irish women violinists
Place of birth missing (living people)