Jazz at the Wertheim Series: NYC-based jazz violinist Sara Caswell with the FIU Jazz Faculty Ensemble at Herbert And Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center

NYC-based jazz violinist Sara Caswell and the FIU Faculty Jazz Ensemble present an evening of avant-garde music. Sara Caswell “is a brilliant world-class violinist…one of the very best of the present generation of emerging young jazz stars” according to David Baker, internationally-renowned jazz educator and Director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.

Rooted in an early exposure to a variety of musical genres, Sara’s technical facility on the violin intertwined with her gift for lyricism continues to attract growing attention to her artistry as a jazz soloist, sideman, and teacher....

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NYC-based jazz violinist Sara Caswell and the FIU Faculty Jazz Ensemble present an evening of avant-garde music. Sara Caswell “is a brilliant world-class violinist…one of the very best of the present generation of emerging young jazz stars” according to David Baker, internationally-renowned jazz educator and Director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.

Rooted in an early exposure to a variety of musical genres, Sara’s technical facility on the violin intertwined with her gift for lyricism continues to attract growing attention to her artistry as a jazz soloist, sideman, and teacher.

Recognized as a “Rising Star” in both the 2013 and 2014 DownBeat Magazine Critics and Readers Polls and as one of the top jazz violinists in both the 2011 and 2012 JazzTimes Readers’ Poll, Sara’s two groups (the Sara Caswell Quartet and the Caswell Sisters Quintet) have been heard in venues ranging from Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club to college & university concert halls.

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