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· Doctor of Musical Arts, Violin Performance with Cognate in Instrumental Conducting, Frost School of Music at the University of Miami
· Master of Music, Conducting and Violin Performance, University of Florida
· Bachelor of Music, Violin Performance with Piano as Secondary Instrument, Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona and one year at West Virginia University as exchange student
Eva Carizza, artistic name of Dr. Eva Casado Ariza, is an awarded multi-instrumentalist, conductor, and singer from Barcelona, Spain. She holds a DMA inViolin Performance with a Cognate in Instrumental Conducting.
Dr. Casado Ariza began her music studies at five years old. At age twelve, she developed a severe type of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome that forced her to be in bed for six years. She then became the first person who ever earned a professional degree while playing violin in bed. She also prompted a law in Catalonia improving the situation of people with disabilities in artistic degrees—which was finally approved by the Parliament in November 2013. After that, with the help of a wheelchair, she graduated from the “Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña” in Barcelona and West Virginia University. She later earned her Master Degree in Violin and Conducting at the University of Florida, always with outstanding achievement.
She is a winner of the 2018 VSA International Young Soloist Competition, and awarded the most important fellowship of Spain, delivered by the King and Queen of Spain in person. She is also winner of the South Beach Jazz Award and founder and soloist-conductor of the Miami Diamond Chamber Orchestra. She has worked as a conductor of professional orchestras and director-conductor of student orchestras since 2015. She studied under the mentorship of acclaimed Maestros such as Antoni Ros Marbà (former conductor of Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra RTVE and Spain’s National Orchestra), Salvador Brotons (music director and conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra), and Gerard Schwarz (music director and conductor of the All-Star Orchestra). She is committed to using her expertise to help students with disabilities. For that purpose, she dedicated her nine years at university to develop recognized scholarly work presented at Yale University and at the College Music Society’s National and International Conferences. She is also a member of the South Beach Jazz Festival Advisory Council and a member of the College Music Society Health, Wellness, and Accessibility Committee.