Karisa Werdon

Dr. Karisa Werdon has received awards at the Fischoff Competition, the Coleman Competition, Chamber Music Yellow Springs and the Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition. A featured soloist at the NYC Electronic Music Festival and the International Computer Music Conference, Karisa maintains a busy life of performance, teaching and volunteer work in the New York City area. She received her Doctorate of Musical Arts at Stony Brook University, holds a Masters degree from Yale University as well as a Bachelors degree from Grand Valley State University. She and her ensemble, TABOR, are recipients of a prestigious Yale Alumniventures Grant funding their musical activities at the KIPP public school in Harlem. Her recent recording of Rand Steiger’s /Nested Etudes/ will be available on EMF records in spring 2009.