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glaser in 2006 photo : bob travis solo_singer violin jazz , bluegrass matt_glaser . jpg matt glaser
 matt glaser musician , educator
matt glaser

matt glaser is an american jazz and bluegrass violinist .
he served as the chair of the string department at the berklee college of music for more than twenty-five years .
he is now the founder and artistic director of berklee 's american roots music program .
he holds an m.mus .
degree from tufts university .
he has performed at carnegie hall with stephane grappelli and yo-yo ma , and at the boston globe jazz festival with gunther schuller .
he has also performed with bob dylan , ralph stanley , lee konitz , david grisman , mark o'connor , andy statman , jamey haddad , jay ungar , bruce molsky , darol anger , art baron , and the international string quartet congress .
he is featured on the grammy award -- winning soundtrack for ken burns 's 1990 `` the civil war '' documentary and the soundtrack for the 1978 film `` king of the gypsies '' .
he served on the board of advisors for ken burns 's 2001 `` jazz '' documentary and appears as a narrator in the film .
in 2013 , he won the artist teacher award from the american string teachers association -lrb- asta -rrb- .
past recipients include joseph szigeti , pablo casals , isaac stern , yehudi menuhin , dorothy delay , and ivan galamian .
in addition to founding his own musical group , called the wayfaring strangers -lrb- featuring tony trischka , laszlo gardony , and tracy bonham -rrb- , he has been a member of the central park sheiks , the new york bluegrass all-stars , and fiddle fever .
he has recorded an album with fellow fiddle player kenny kosek 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 somerville , massachusetts .
his notable students include casey driessen , sarina suno and mads tolling .
