Cuckoo's Nest Gypsy Jazz Sextet

Jolianne von Einem, violin
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Violinist Jolianne von Einem currently travels from her home in Trinidad California to play with groups such as Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Magnificat, California Bach Society, and also the Portland Baroque Orchestra. She performs often with her partner, fellow violinist Rob Diggins in the Alard String Quartet, in Cuckoo’s Nest (Gypsy Jazz), and in The Owl and Pussycat Salon Orchestra (Ballroom, Tango, cha-cha).
Her experience as a baroque violinist has brought her to many parts of the world- Japan with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Singapore and Hong Kong with American Bach Soloists, Germany and New York city with Philharmonia Baroque, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and England with Trio Sonnerie, and France with the Amsterdam Baroque.
Her recordings include Mendelssohn Octet with Hausmusick, (EMI), Eighteenth Century Music for Lute and Strings with Trio Galanterie, (Audioquest), and Legrenzi Cantatas and trio sonatas with El Mundo, (Koch).

Jolianne grew up in Los Angeles and received her BA from UCLA, where she studied with Alex Treger, played with the UCLA String Quartet, and was concertmaster of the orchestra. During this time she was exposed to the unique and beautiful sound of baroque violinist Monica Huggett. She studied with Monica in summer courses, and explored period instrument practices as a founding member and principal player in the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra. She received her Masters Degree in Music from USC, returning to study violin with Alice Schoenfeld, who had been her influential childhood teacher, (age 7-11), and who helped create a "little violinist" and gave Joli a technical foundation, that lasted her through a few-year hiatus from lessons...! Joli played trumpet in her high school marching band for fun, sang in the choir, loved math, sports, natural sciences, art, poetry... and violin - which had been a part of her life since age four, was apparently there to stay! (Business school was never in the running!)

In 1994 she headed North to Humboldt County where she enjoys the greenery, the ocean, and a sense of community, and lives "happily ever after" with her family and garden!