Jazz Violinist, Educator, and Producer

 

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Education

Online Jazz Violin Lessons

Creative Strings Workshop

String Improv Instructional Media

School Residencies

Formerly an Associate Professor of the Berklee College of Music, Christian offers his method of “Creative String Playing” to help players and teachers expand into improvisation/composition and “alternative styles strings”.

Performance

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Nominated recently for jazz “violinist of the year” by the JJA, Christian was voted first place in the 2011 Downbeat Critics Poll (rising stars/ jazz violin). The Minneapolis tribune called Christian “arguably the most intriguing young violinist in jazz”. He performs worldwide with his own ensembles and as a guest soloist.

Production

Producers/Composers/bands, look no further for world class, affordable session strings.

Christian Howes String Productions provides affordable string arrangements and remote, online string recording for albums, commercials, films, video games, and more. Just think, “studio strings in the cloud”!