JAN KARLIN, violist and Founding Executive Director of Southwest Chamber Music, was Instructor of Viola at the Claremont Colleges for 15 years.  She has performed throughout the U. S., Asia, and Europe, including the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna, Cooper Union in New York City, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Tanglewood, Schleswig-Holstein, Flanders, Brighton and the Vienna Festivals.  Ms. Karlin received her Bachelor’s Degree from Tufts University in Drama and Music, and her Master’s Degree from Boston University as a student of Walter Trampler.  She studied chamber music under such notable musicians as Eugene Lehner, Joseph Silverstein and Louis Krasner.  Ms. Karlin also performed with the Boston Pops, Opera Company of Boston, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra in Boston, the Pacific and Long Beach Symphonies in California and the Wiener Akademie in Vienna.  Her recordings are available on Cambria Master Recordings, ORFEO, (Munich) and Novalis, and she performed on Southwest Chamber Music’s Complete Chamber Works of Carlos Chávez,, which received consecutive 2003 and 2004 GRAMMY Awards, and received a Grammy Award as producer of Chavez Volume 3.