French-born violinist Etienne Gara has performed extensively worldwide in some of the most renowned venues, including recurring international appearances at Itzhak Perlman’s Chamber Music Festival. Dedicated to crossing musical boundaries, he appeared on Leonard Cohen’s last album, collaborated with Benjamin Millepied and the LA Dance Project, founded the award-winning Sunset Club Trio, which combined violin with flamenco and electric guitar in arrangements of great classical repertoire, and created Sketches of Miles, a multi-stylistic exploration inspired by the work of Miles Davis. He has been Artist-in-Residence at the USC Brain & Creativity Institute since 2019, where he recorded his French Recital CD on the Leonora Jackson Stradivarius from 1714. From 2021 to 2023, he was Artist-in-Residence at the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts, where he was Artistic Director of the nationally-recognized “Treelogy” project.