Cameron Sawzin/ Boston Virtuosi, Boston, MA
Cellist Cameron Sawzinstudied at with Channing Robbins and Leonard Rose at Juilliard Preparatory School. While at Juilliard, she refined her skills, playing on recording sessions in New York. She earned her B.M. and M.M. degrees in cello performance from Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory of Music, studying with Richard Kapuscinski and Lawrence Lesser.
An active freelance musician, her engagements range from Symphony New Hampshire, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Masterworks Chorale at Sanders Theater, Marriage of Figaro with Boston Lyric Opera- to Theater District Broadway Shows “Sweet Charity” and “Spelling Bee”.
Boston Virtuosi premiered her composition; “Turnabout Tango” and she was also a member of the Boston Virtuosi quintet that was featured in the concert scene in the Miramax film, “The Human Stain” starring Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman and Gary Sinise and Ed Harris.
She was a soloist in the New Directions Cello Festival and has served on their steering committee, along with Artistic Advisors, YoYo Ma, Ron Carter, Julian Lloyd Weber and David Darling.
Other recordings are “We are Here”, CD recorded with members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band. (Smithsonian's Library of Congress #88-743108). Warner Bros “One Night Stand” with Paul Stookey, recorded live at Carnegie Hall and Stookey's “Band and Bodyworks”, a Grammy Award Nominee. One of the compositions in the Carnegie hall concert was the famous “Wedding Song”. Paul Stookey created a foundation, Blue Heaven, which donates all of the sizable proceeds from this song to school programs. Stookey and Cameron have filmed a two live Christmas and Easter concerts for PBS, which were aired nationally. She also recently recorded “Virtual Party” a new CD on New World Records with Mr. Stookey. She has been featured on her brother, jazz violinist Doug Cameron's CD's including, “Celtic Crossroads”, released on Virgin records, and his newest, recorded in Australia, New York and L.A. She plays with the Boston Virtuosi ensemble which 2018 Grammy winner Claudio Ragazzi, Nando Michelin, Violist Scott Woolweaver and Violinist Elliott Markow. Claudio and Nando have written fantastic Jazz/Tango arrangements for the ensemble.
Cameron has also recorded for the PBS show, Nova. A recording for the PBS show “Race, the Power of an Illusion” was internationally broadcast several times on Nova in 3-hour segments and is ever more relevant now.
Productive summers have been spent with the Aspen Festival Chamber Orchestra, New Hampshire Music Festival, Lake George Opera, Strings in the Mountains Festival and the Festival of the Americas in Santa Fe, NM.
Ms. Sawzin has also served two terms as guest cello faculty at the University of New Hampshire. She has teaching studios at the Munroe Center for the performing arts in Lexington, and in Andover.
