Caitlin Warbelow

Teaches at Irish Arts Center

Born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, Caitlin Warbelow began studying violin at age three in the Suzuki Method. While continuing with intensive classical music studies, she found a concurrent love of Irish music after meeting a few fiddlers and hearing a few seminal CDs around the age of seven. Caitlin was given the chance to travel and study in Ireland at the age of sixteen, attending the Willie Clancy School and the BLAS school at the University of Limerick. Caitlin attended Boston University on a full music scholarship and obtained B.M. and B.A. degrees with honors in Violin Performance and Anthropology in 2005. After serving as an Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of Alaska, she was accepted at Columbia University and graduated with an M.S. in Urban Planning in 2008 (which led her to her current entrepreneurial work as a research cartographer). She has performed at venues such as Joe's Pub, Rockwood Music Hall, and The Living Room, been written about in Irish Music Magazine, and recently won the Senior division of the Mid-Atlantic Fleadh Cheoil, qualifying her to compete at the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann in August 2009. The 2009 winner of the prestigious New England Fiddle Championships and the 2008 winner of the Lake Champlain Bluegrass Festival, Caitlin continues to expand her musical expertise into yet more genres. Caitlin can also be found playing with the Garden State Philharmonic, and loves teaching both Irish and Classical music to fiddlers of all ages out of her midtown studio, at the Irish Arts Center in Manhattan, and around the country at various festivals.