Episodes
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Episode 64: Julie Lyonn Lieberman
Julie Lyonn Lieberman has helped develop the multi-style string field over the last forty+ years through her work as an educator, author, radio producer, composer, writer, recording artist, and performer. She has performed on and off Broadway as well as in folk and jazz clubs throughout the…
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Episode 63: Seoyeon Im
Seoyeon Im, aka SixMinor, aka V.OLIN is a jazz and pop violinist from Korea. After studying classical violin in Korea she attended Berklee School of Music in Boston and recently earned a Masters Degree in Jazz from Queens College in NYC. She has large and growing audiences on YouTube, Instagram…
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Episode 62: Billy Contreras
There are lots of amazing players out there but when you talk to the best players about who blows their minds, one name keeps popping up. Billy Contreras is only in his 30s, but his playing has been raising eyebrows and dropping jaws for over 20 years, from his days as a young fiddle prodigy to…
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Episode 61: Darol Anger
Exceptional among modern fiddlers for his versatility and depth, Darol Anger has helped drive the evolution of the contemporary string band through his involvement with numerous trailblazing ensembles such as his Republic Of Strings, the Turtle Island String Quartet, the David Grisman Quintet,...
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Episode 60: Jared Burnett
Jared Burnett is a consummate self-made, full-time professional violinist, touring widely to perform everywhere from night clubs & corporate conventions to Broadway & Carnegie Hall. With influences such as The Charlie Daniel’s Band, Jean Luc Ponty and more mainstream artists such as Boyd Tinsley…
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Episode 59: Chelsey Green
With performances often described as passionate, vivacious, electrifying, and innovative, Billboard-charting international recording artist Chelsey Green brings the vibrancy of violin and viola playing and unique, rich vocals to worldwide audiences in a whole new way. Dr. Green is an Associate...
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Episode 58: Cremaine Booker
Cremaine Booker, aka ThatCelloGuy, is a cellist who hails from Dallas, TX. Whether you know it or not, you’ve almost definitely heard Cremaine play. He was on the new Lion King soundtrack. He’s recorded with Black Violin, Lauren Daigle, Keb Mo, Sheryl Crow, Michael McDonald and so many more. He’s...
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Episode 57: Lindsey Stirling
Welcome to another episode of Rockstar Violinist, the podcast from Electric Violin Shop that brings you the biggest stars in the world of electric strings. There may be no bigger star in our world than Lindsey Stirling. From regular appearances on the biggest stages to over 3 billion views on...
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Episode 56: Rachel Barton Pine (part 2)
*This is part 1 of our 2-part extended interview with Rachel Barton Pine. Stay tuned for part 2, coming soon!* Rachel Barton Pine is one of the most recognized names on the classical music scene today. She made her debut as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 10. Since then…
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Episode 55: Rachel Barton Pine (part 1)
*This is part 1 of our 2-part extended interview with Rachel Barton Pine. Find part 2 on our channel.* Rachel Barton Pine is one of the most recognized names on the classical music scene today. She made her debut as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 10. Since then, she’s gone…
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Episode 54: Kiana June Weber
Celtic fiddler and award-winning singer-songwriter Kiana June Weber has headlined the largest Celtic festivals in the world. She reached No.1 on the Billboard World Music charts multiple times as a member of Gaelic Storm. She later spent three years touring with the world famous violin troupe,...
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Episode 53: Trevor Dick
Violinist Trevor Dick cultivates a successful career as solo artist as well as being a prolific composer/arranger. Trevor's reach extends beyond just playing the violin though. Since 2005, Trevor has acted as a Compassion Canada artist and actively promotes the cause of child poverty at his...
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Episode 52: Ariella Zeitlin
Ariella Zeitlin is a world renowned violinist and singer-songwriter, known for her upbeat original style and combining virtuoso classical music with upbeat rock originals. Originally from Baltimore, MD, she moved to Israel at the age of 17 where she quickly became a musical representative of...
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Episode 51: Daniel Bernard Roumain [DBR]
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) is a prolific and endlessly collaborative composer, performer, educator, and social entrepreneur. Known for his signature violin sounds infused with myriad electronic, urban, and African-American music influences, DBR takes his genre-bending music beyond the…
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Episode 50: Brian King Joseph
Brian King Joseph is a self-taught and self-produced electric violinist who rose to fame in season 13 of America's Got Talent, when he advanced to the finals and finished the competition in 3rd place. BKJ has made a name for himself in the music scene since the age of 4. He has performed with…
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Episode 49: Jimmy Mattingly
Even if you haven't heard the name Jimmy Mattingly you've probably heard his incredible playing as a touring and recording fiddler for some of the biggest Country acts of all time, including Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Brooks and Dunn, Garth Brooks, Rascal Flats, Keith Urban, [pause for breath],...
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Episode 48: Gig Disasters
"Oh, s@#!" ... That's what these performers said when disaster struck their gigs. This episode of the Rockstar Violinist podcast (NSFW: language) is a compilation of new stories from a dozen of our past interview guests as well as one from our host, Matt Bell. Some of these anecdotes will make…
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Episode 47: Kishi Bashi
Kishi Bashi is the pseudonym of singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Kaoru Ishibashi. Kaoru studied film scoring at Berklee College of Music before becoming a renowned violinist. Kishi Bashi is also the singer and founding member of the New York electronic rock outfit, Jupiter One. In...
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Episode 46: Shana Tucker
This episode of Electric Violins Shop's "Rockstar Violinist" podcast features one of our own--EVS staff cellist Shana Tucker! Sadly, we don't see as much of Shana in the shop as we'd like to these days, but that's only because as an in-demand performer, recording artist and educator she is...
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Episode 45: David Wallace
Dr. David Wallace is a fiercely eclectic musician, award-winning composer, and master teaching artist who currently serves as Chair of the String Department of Berklee College of Music. Known for his mastery of eclectic styles ranging from all classical genres to fiddling, rock, and free jazz,...
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Episode 44: Matt Vanacoro
Matt Vanacoro is one of New York’s premier musicians and an expert at studio music recording production. With a strong understanding of technology for today’s modern musician, Matt is able to utilize the latest equipment and software to make his rig work for any situation. Experienced in both...
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Episode 43: Lars Thorson
Born in Nashville, TN, Lars began playing fiddle at age six. He started gigging around Nashville at age fifteen and by seventeen was working the Broadway circuit. He studied violin performance formally at Berklee College of Music before returning to Nashville to pursue a career as a touring...
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Episode 42: Cassandra Sotos
Cassandra Sotos is a 7-string Viper electric violinist, acoustic violinist, fiddler, mandolin player, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and recording artist. Cassandra can be seen touring all over the world performing styles including pop, rock, and country. She began her musical journey at the age…
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Episode 41: Tracy Silverman
Redefining the role of the violin in contemporary music, Tracy Silverman has contributed significantly to the repertoire and development of the 6-string electric violin and what he calls “post-classical violin playing.” Formerly first violinist with the innovative Turtle Island String Quartet,...
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Episode 40: Rob Flax
Rob Flax is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator with a playful heart and an open mind. He has performed nationally and internationally with groups of many different styles, including opening for B.B. King and Tower of Power, playing viola and violin with the Trans...
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Episode 39: Ben Karas
Known primarily for his work as a performer, composer and orchestrator in New Jersey based bands Thank You Scientist and Windfaerer, Ben Karas is a violinist with classical training whose drive as a musician has been fueled by his passion for louder and more extreme types of music. He is a...
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Episode 38: ThatViolaKid(Drew Forde)
Violist Drew Alexander Forde, known online as ThatViolaKid, has a reputation not only as an accomplished performer but also as one of classical music’s most recognizable online brands. Forde maintains an active performing and recording career. In classical settings, he is a seasoned chamber...
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Episode 37: Greg Byers
Greg Byers is a jazz cellist, a top-notch performer, a fantastic composer, an amazing singer, and a highly sought teacher. He begin cello at a very young age through the Suzuki method. By age sixteen, he was a talented cellist, but was frustrated with the lack of personal expression he found in...
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Episode 36: Rudolf Haken
Rudolf Haken is a violist, composer, and professor of music internationally renowned for his creative melding of disparate musical styles and genres. He is particularly known for his work with extended-range violas, appearing in concert on four continents with his five-string Rivinus viola and...
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Episode 35: The Lost Episode
We've interviewed a lot of great string players so far, and it seems almost every one of them has a nightmare story about losing their instrument. This show, The Lost Episode, is a compilation of just some of those stories from Patrick Contreras (1:31), Ross Holmes (6:50), Joe Deninzon (17:10)…
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Episode 34: Chuck Bontrager
Chuck Bontrager is the very definition of the the versatile 21st-century violinist: classically trained, yet experienced in multiple performance styles, and fluent in several variations of his instrument including viola, chin-cello, mandolin and mandola, and especially his 7-string Wood Violins...
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Episode 33: Bar Markovich
Award-winning cross-genre violinist Bar Markovich is taking the electric violin to places it's never been before. No seriously, he's taken his Viper parasailing! As one of Israel's most promising young musicians, his latest solo work has led to a host of commercial successes which included...
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Episode 32: Scott Laird
Scott Laird is an electric violinist, recording artist and nationally renowned strings educator. He is also well-known for his electric violin work with the thrash metal band, Believer. He has shared the stage with other well known artists including Dave Brubeck, Lost in the Trees, Mike Marshall,...
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Episode 31: Zach Brock
Zach Brock is a Grammy Award-winning violinist and composer whose music evokes the spirits of John Coltrane, Béla Bartók, and Jimi Hendrix. He has been recognized for his "soaring lyricism, audacious ingenuity, and masterful command of the instrument." Downbeat Magazine named Zach it's 'Rising…
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Episode 30: Abigail Stahlschmidt
Classically trained from age 4, Abigail Stahlschmidt started to explore alternative styles in her early teens. At that point she started fiddling for almost any band that would have her and delved into everything from Country to Rock to Jazz to Contemporary Christian. Since then, Abigail has…
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Episode 29: Amanda Gookin
Adventurous cellist Amanda Gookin champions the future of music through bold performances of new works, and a dedication to education, culture, and community engagement. She is the co-founder of the innovative string quartet, PUBLIQuartet, specializing in new music performance and improvisation....
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Episode 28: Haydn Vitera
Since launching his solo career in 2005, former Asleep At The Wheel fiddle player and Austin Latino Rocker/Electric Violinist HAYDN VITERA has made his mark sharing the stage with headliners as diverse as Grammy winners Los Lonely Boys, Rock En Español pioneers Los Enanitos Verdes and 80’s rock...
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Episode 27: Martha Mooke
Acclaimed for her electrifying performances and compositions, pioneering composer/electro-acoustic violist, Martha Mooke transcends musical boundaries, enhancing her classical training and expertise with extended techniques, digital effects processing and improvisation. A Yamaha Artist and…
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Episode 26: Ginny Luke
Ginny Luke has played and recorded with artists including Foo Fighters, Brittany Spears, Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dog, Dave Matthews, Ricky Martin, Meatloaf and Iggy Azalea to name only a few. As a classically trained violinist Ginny has held concertmaster positions in eight orchestras. Not only is she...
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Episode 25: Jesús Florido
Jesús Florido’s knowledge and experience in modern violin is nearly unparalleled. In addition to classical violin performance, he also has studied Afro-Cuban, Jazz, Rock, and Fiddle music, which - combined with his Latin American roots - has produced a unique and eclectic vision of music...
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Episode 24: Patrick Contreras
Patrick Contreras has branded his unique style of violin playing with influences of Blues, EDM, Rock and Hip Hop. He's opened for artists like BB King, Al Jarreau, Stanley Clarke and others, has been featured on WorldStarHipHop three times as ‘Talent Of The Week’ and has well over a million views...
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Episode 23: Razz
Razzvio is an electric violinist and singer who reinvents familiar pop and rock arrangements from an entirely different angle. Through live looping, she blends powerhouse vocals with her unique violin designed to build songs with the sophistication of a string quartet. This episode is sponsored…
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Episode 22: DSharp
Derryck Gleaton, better known as DSharp, is an American violinist, DJ, singer and producer based in Los Angeles. Known for his trademark colorful violins, he writes his own music as well as performs cover versions of popular songs, focusing on hip hop, electronic dance music and classical pieces....
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Episode 21: Daniela Padrón
Daniela Padrón is a Venezuelan-American violinist, nominated to the Latin Grammy (2013) as the violinist of the acclaimed Venezuelan world music band Gaêlica, in the Folk Music Category. Daniela released her first soloist album "Bach to Venezuela" in May 2016, where she adapts some of the most…
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Episode 20: Alex DePue
With a background in classical violin, Alex Depue developed an amazing ability to turn on a dime towards bluegrass fiddling, jazz, rock, and/or any improvisational style available to the instrument, resulting in surprisingly eclectic musical career. He won youth classical violin competitions, is…
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Episode 19: Val Vigoda
“Val Vigoda is a compact bundle of talent. She plays a strapped-on electric violin like a demon. She sings with a voice that pushes the walls into expanded dimensions. She acts with great charm.” This is how drama critic David Finkle opens his HuffPost review of our guest’s rock musical ’Ernest...
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Episode 18: Jenn Cornell
As a solo cellist Jenn Cornell delivers a progressive groove oriented experience through intricately spun looped compositions. You may have heard her music before--she was half of the genre-bending fusion duo Montana Skies, whose music was featured on the Travel Channel and NPR. These days Jenn...
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Episode 17: Christian Howes
Since establishing himself as a world-class jazz violinist, Christian Howes has also become an in-demand composer, producer and educator. He has played Lincoln Center, been a professor at Berklee School of Music and has served as a cultural ambassador at the invitation of the U.S. State…
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Episode 16: Earl Maneein
**Note: This version of the interview with Earl Maneein contains bleeped words. If you are not sensitive to language feel free to seek out the uncensored version of the interview on our SoundCloud page.** While a versatile violinist comfortable in styles ranging from classical to bluegrass, jazz,...
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Episode 15: Sarah Charness
Sarah Charness, known on Instagram as @sarahpinkviolin, has done everything with her custom Pink 6-string Viper from playing the halftime of NBA games to performing with huge acts including Trans Siberian Orchestra, The Chainsmokers, the Jonas Brothers, and Sigala. Her vibrant, physically…
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