Javan Carson has been playing the violin for most of her life, having started as a Suzuki student at age two. She earned her degree in Violin Performance from the University of Denver on a full scholarship, and began playing professionally with the Denver Chamber Orchestra while still in college. Ms. Carson has played in chamber groups for more than 30 years, and has performed with countless orchestras, including the Colorado Ballet Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. She has played with such performers as Doc Severinson, Mel Torme, Kathy Lee Gifford, Mannheim Steamroller, Stevie Wonder, Marco Antonio Solis, and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. She has been a violinist with the Denver-based 70s tribute band, Mr. Majestyk’s 8-Track Revival, since 2015, and has performed with them at Red Rocks Amphitheater and at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater.

Ms. Carson has been teaching private violin, viola, and piano lessons for more than 35 years, has instructed Suzuki group classes for fifteen years, and has taught string classes in three metro-area school districts. She was the conductor of the Sinfonia at Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestras for five years, and for two years was the Music Director and Conductor of Eklectika Youth Ensembles, an innovative youth orchestra that she founded. She was the conductor of the String Ensembles and the Conservatory Orchestras at Denver Young Artists Orchestras for ten years, and has been the conductor of the Concert Strings and Chamber Orchestras at Front Range Youth Symphony since 2015. 

Ms. Carson is in demand as an adjudicator, clinician, and chamber coach throughout Colorado. She joined the instrumental staff at Colorado Academy as a violin/viola instructor and orchestra teacher in 2017, and in the summers she works for Denver Chamber Music coaching ensembles, directing the camp orchestra, and arranging music for the orchestra. She is also a Music Together teacher for Twinkle Together, teaching classes to children ages birth through age four, and she has completed her training and received her Level 1 Certification. She studied Dalcroze Education for several years, and she recently started working at the Dalcroze School of the Rockies as an administrative assistant. Ms. Carson’s other activities include raising two teen boys who both play the cello.