Tracey Jasas-Hardel

Tracey Jasas-Hardel’s passion for the instrument is notable and has led to numerous awards, performances, recordings, and teaching positions. After graduating from the Interlochen Arts academy, she went on to study with master pedagogues Linda Cerone, Victor Danchenko and David Russell at The Cleveland Institute of Music. While in college, Tracey attended Encore School for Strings in Ohio, as well as chamber music programs with the Audubon Quartet, the Cavani Quartet, and the Weilerstein Duo. She was chosen to play in the Sarasota Chamber Music Festival, The Schleswig-Holstein Orchestra Festival, and the National Orchestral Institute. She was awarded a Fulbright grant for violin study in Berlin, Germany, where she attended the Hochschule der Musik and toured around Europe performing both as a recitalist and an orchestra member.

She was selected to be a member of the U.S. Marine Band Chamber Orchestra, which performs chamber music in the White House at the President’s request for state dinners, meetings, and parties, and a regular performer with the National Symphony Orchestra, The National Gallery Orchestra, The National Chamber Orchestra, and the Alexandria Symphony. After returning to the Midwest, Tracey performed regularly with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, The Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, and the Bel Canto Choir Orchestra and Waukesha Symphony, as concertmaster and principal second violin. She can be heard on recordings with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Milwaukee Symphony and Boyz 2 Men, and has appeared onstage with artists such as Rod Stewart, John Denver, Sting, Smoky Robinson Elton John and many others.

Tracey is a co-founder of 240 Strings, a nonprofit in Portland, ME providing free private lessons to students who couldn’t otherwise afford them, as well as free concerts. She has taught at both New England Suzuki Institute and New England Music Camp.

Currently, Tracey is living with her husband and three kids in Yarmouth, Maine, where she is teaching and playing chamber music.