Jason As.-

Jason is an accomplished violinist and music educator who began his violin training at the age of four through the Suzuki School method. He completed his bachelors in music at the prestigious private school called the Hartt School of Music located in Hartford Ct, where he studied the violin and chamber music with the 7 time Grammy Award winning Emerson String Quartet. While he was at Hartt he continued violin performance in the intensive graduate program and was awarded a graduate professional diploma (GPD). He went on and continued his education at Illinois State University where he obtained a full graduate teaching assistanceship and a Masters in Violin Performance. As a professional violinist he was a core member of Atlanta Pops Orchestra which had the privilege to tour Taiwan. Also a member of the Hartford Symphony who toured with Andrea Bocelli, and a member of the Illinois Symphony and Chicago Chamber Orchestra and Alabama Symphony in Birmingham AL. In 2006 ored the solo violinist position with the international touring broadway show, the Producers. When this show closed he excepted a teaching position with the Texas Independent School District and Houston ISD and adjunct professor at the Texarkana College. He also became a full time member of the professional Shreveport Orchestra.