Christian Howes
About
Violinist, educator and composer, Christian Howes was voted #1 in the Downbeat Critics Poll (“Rising Stars/Violin”), named among the top three jazz violinists in the JazzTimes critics poll, and nominated for Violinist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist Association. He received the Residency Partner Award through Chamber Music America, earned a USArtists grant through the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and was invited by the U.S. State department to teach and perform as a cultural ambassador twice, in Ukraine and Montenegro. His release on Resonance Records, “Southern Exposure” earned recognition in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Downbeat, Jazz Times, as well as a six-night run at Lincoln Center. His release, “American Spirit” was named among the Best Jazz Albums of the Year″ by the Huffington Post. Howes is the founder of “Creative Strings“, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to expand music education through the creation of online curriculum, conferences, and visits to schools teaching improvisation, contemporary styles, and related subjects. He endorses Yamaha violins and D’Addario strings.
I help musicians solve these problems:
- Inconsistency with improvisation.
- Not knowing the chords to songs you play.
- No idea how or what to play without sheet music.
- You come out of the practice room unsure whether you improved anything in a permanent way and don’t know how to organize, moment to moment, what to focus on in your practice.
- Reluctant to join or initiate musical collaborations.
- Settling for gigs you don’t want when you’re qualified for ones you do.
- Your students want to do more but you’re unsure how to help them.
- A tendency to beat yourself up instead of appreciating your abilities.