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Carolyn Gadiel Warner, violin and piano
Carolyn Gadiel Warner is a native of Winnipeg, Canada. She is a pianist and violinist and has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in both instruments from the University of Toronto as well as earning a First Prize in violin and chamber music from the Paris Conservatory of Music under full scholarship. Ms. Warner has been a member of the violin and keyboard sections of The Cleveland Orchestra since 1979, where she now holds the Marc and Marjorie Swartzbaugh endowed Keyboard Chair where she currently serves as Interim Principal Keyboard. Prior to coming to The Cleveland Orchestra, Ms. Warner held both violin and keyboard positions with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas. She is a founding member of The Cleveland Duo with her husband, violinist Stephen Warner, and of The Cleveland Duo and James Umble, both groups which have toured actively as concert performers and artists in education throughout the U.S. and abroad. She can be heard with both ensembles on the Cappella, Dana, Klavier and Centaur labels.
Ms. Warner has taught or given master classes at music schools and conservatories throughout North America, in Beijing, China and in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia. Ms. Warner was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1987 and now serves both the Conservatory and Pre-College Divisions of Chamber Music. She has been tasked with curating programs for the Institute honoring composers such as Darius Milhaud and Ernest Bloch who were closely tied to CIM in its early years and has sat on numerous occasions on the jury of the annual Darius Milhaud competition. She hosts an annual concert called “Carolyn Warner & Friends” in which she frequently spotlights music by French composers and features faculty, students and prominent guest artists. Ms. Warner has collaborated with such renowned musicians as violinists, Philip Setzer, Joel Smirnoff, William Preucil and Peter Salaff; cellists Stephen Geber, Desmond Hoebig, and Mark Kosower, and several other woodwind personalities such as Franklin Cohen and Afendi Yusuf, clarinet, Joshua Smith, flute and Richard King, French Horn. Ms. Warner is also Co-Director of the Case Western Reserve University Chamber Music program.