Aaron Schwartz, violin

Aaron Schwartz, violin

Aaron Schwartz is an accomplished orchestral, chamber, fiddler, and jazz musician. He creates chamber music arrangements and performs them regularly as a performing artist with the Caroga Lake Music Festival and as a founding member of the KASA
Quartet.

As an orchestral musician, Aaron serves as Concertmaster of Opera Project Columbus, Assistant Concertmaster of the Lacrosse Symphony Orchestra and also performs in CityMusic Cleveland, Nat28, and the Ohio Valley Symphony. He has soloed with the Danville Symphony and LaCrosse Symphony Orchestra, and participated in master classes with Rachel Barton Pine, Peter Salaff, Michael Tree, Joseph Silverstein and the Cavani String Quartet.

As a dedicated teacher, Aaron is an Associated Faculty member at the Chamber Music Connection in Worthington, Ohio where he coaches chamber music and improvisation. Aaron also teaches a private studio through Encore Music Studios. Aaron received a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance and an Advanced Musical Studies Certificate from Carnegie Mellon under the tutelage of Andres Cardenes. Aaron plays with a French-Canadian bow crafted by Richard Compartino on loan from Deborah Price.