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Matt Glaser is an American
jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...
and bluegrass violinist. He served as the chair of the string department at the
Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music () is a Private university, private music college in Boston, Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern Music of the United ...
for more than twenty-five years. He is now the founder and artistic director of Berklee's American Roots Music Program.


Biography

Glaser holds an M.Mus. degree from
Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. Tufts also has several Doctor of Physical Therapy p ...
. He has performed at
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with
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and
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, and at the Boston Globe Jazz Festival with
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. He has also performed with
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, Bruce Molsky,
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, Art Baron, and the International String Quartet Congress. He is featured on the
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–winning soundtrack for
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's 1990 '' The Civil War'' documentary and the soundtrack for the 1978 film ''
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''. He served on the board of advisors for Ken Burns's 2001 ''
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'' documentary and appears as a narrator in the film. In 2013, he won the Artist Teacher Award from the American String Teachers Association (ASTA). Past recipients include
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. In addition to founding his own musical group, called the Wayfaring Strangers (featuring
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), he has been a member of the Central Park Sheiks, the New York Bluegrass All-Stars, and
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. He has recorded an album with fellow fiddle player
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and he has appeared on numerous other recordings. He has authored two books: ''Jazz Violin'' and ''Jazz Chord Studies for Violin'', and an instructional video, ''Swingin' Jazz Violin''. Glaser lives in
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. His notable students include Casey Driessen, Sarina Suno and
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.


Central Park Sheiks

The ''Central Park Sheiks'' were a mixed influence band that formed in the early 1970s and released a single LP, ''Honeysuckle Rose''. The band members included Bob Hipkins, Matt Glaser, Richard Lieberson, Bert Lee, and John Caruso. Marty Confurious replaced Caruso in the bands later years. The style they are most often associated with is urban and western acoustic swing music, but they played a great deal of country and folk inflected tunes, as well as original music by Hipkins, Lee and Lieberson. The band toured many colleges in the Eastern seaboard during their years together, and had a very successful final performance at New York's Loeb Student Center in New York. While not widely known outside of the eclectic music scene, the band achieved notoriety in Japan. The band was also associated with Samuel R Delany's Heavenly Breakfast. because band member Bert Lee was part of Delany's communal band in the sixties.


Select discography

* ''Honeysuckle Rose'' (with Central Park Sheiks) * ''Flatpicking Guitar Festival'' (with Central Park Sheiks) With
Skitch Henderson Lyle Russel "Skitch" Henderson (January 27, 1918 – November 1, 2005) was an American pianist, conductor, and composer. His nickname "Skitch" came from his ability to "re-sketch" a song in a different key. Bing Crosby suggested that he sho ...
*''Swinging With Strings'' ( Arbors)


References


Bibliography

* ''Ear Training for Instrumentalists''. Homespun, 1999 * ''Jazz Violin''. (with
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) Music Sales America, 1992 * ''Teach Yourself Bluegrass Fiddle''. Music Sales America, 1999 * ''Berklee Practice Method: Violin''. (with Mimi Rabson) Berklee Press, 2004 * ''Texas and Swing Fiddle''. Homespun, 2004 * ''Vassar Clements - Fiddle: Bluegrass Masters Series''. Music Sales America, 2008 * ''Bluegrass Fiddle and Beyond: Etudes and Ideas for the Modern Fiddler''. Berklee Press, 2010 * ''Beyond Bluegrass Banjo''. (with Dave Hollender) Berklee Press, 2011 * ''Beyond Bluegrass Mandolin''. (with John McGann) Berklee Press, 2011 * ''Berklee Practice Method: Viola''. (with Mimi Rabson) Berklee Press, 2013 * ''Berklee Practice Method: Cello''. (with Mimi Rabson) Berklee Press, 2013


External links


Profile of Matt Glaser
Berklee

RootsWorld
Interview with Matt Glaser
Fiddler Magazine {{DEFAULTSORT:Glaser, Matt Year of birth missing (living people) American male violinists American jazz violinists 21st-century American fiddlers American bluegrass fiddlers Tufts University alumni Living people Berklee College of Music faculty Place of birth missing (living people) American folk musical groups 21st-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians