Sara Caswell

Sara Caswell (2016)

Sara Caswell (born February 21, 1978 in Bloomington, Indiana ) is an American violinist who is primarily active in the field of jazz .

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Caswell comes from a family of musicians; the singer Rachel Caswell is her older sister. She began playing the violin using the Suzuki method at the age of five, mastering the first five volumes in just nine months. In the following years she won numerous prizes and first places in classic competitions. At Indiana University she completed classical violin studies with Josef Gingold , but also jazz studies with David Baker with distinction, before completing her master's degree in jazz violin at the Manhattan School of Music in 2006 .

In 2000, Caswell's debut album First Song was released on Double-Time Records . But Beautiful followed in 2005 on Arbors Records . Together with her sister (and Fred Hersch ) she recorded the album Alive in the Singing Air (2013) as Caswell Sisters ; with the mandolin player Joe Brent a duo EP was released in the same year and the album 9 Horses in 2015 on Sunnyside Records . She is a member of the New York Pops Orchestra.

In 2010 Caswell worked with Esperanza Spaldings Chamber Music Society . She was also involved in Roseanna Vitro's album The Music of Randy Newman . She also toured with Brad Mehldau , David Krakauer , Darol Anger and Bruce Springsteen . Her solo Can't Remember Why from the album Whispers on the Wind by Chuck Owen & The Jazz Surge was nominated for the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo . She can also be heard on albums by Bucky Pizzarelli ( So Hard to Forget ), Cynthia Sayer , Peter Ehwald / Benedikt Jahnel , Catherine Russell , Miho Hazama , Alan Ferber , Mark O'Connor , Nadje Noordhuis , Kishi Bashi and Amina Figarova .

Caswell currently teaches at Berklee College of Music as a professor and continues to teach at the Manhattan School of Music.

Prizes and awards

In 2011 and 2012, Caswell was voted one of the best female jazz violinists in a reader survey by JazzTimes magazine . From 2013 to 2017 she was honored every year in the critics poll of Down Beat magazine as the rising star of the jazz violin.

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personal data
SURNAME	Caswell, Sara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American violinist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 21, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bloomington, Indiana

[1] Entry (Grammy)

[2] Entry (Berklee College of Music)

[3] Entry (Manhattan School of Music)