Jazz violinist, singer and composer
Violinist and singer Eva Slongo has developed a distinctive approach to jazz, rooted in improvisation and in the dialogue between violin and voice.
Trained in classical music at the conservatory, she later studied jazz violin with Pierre Blanchard and Didier Lockwood. She now performs on stages across Europe and North America and directs the Jazz Violin Academy.
Bireli Lagrene
Jean-Luc Ponty
Musical projects
Eva Slongo develops several internationally oriented musical projects.
With Jimmy Grant and the collective Voyage HotClub, she explores a repertoire blending gypsy jazz, classical music, and original compositions, performing with a flexible line-up that incorporates local musicians depending on the country.
She also performs with Swing 23, an instrumental quartet revisiting gypsy swing and New York jazz from the 1920s to the 1940s.
At the same time, she leads more contemporary projects, notably with pianist Giovanni Mirabassi around the album Souffle, as well as with Baptiste Bailly, exploring a musical universe combining jazz, classical music, and Eastern European influences.
Eva Slongo & Biréli Lagrène
Eva Slongo & Laurent Coulondre
Eva Slongo & Didier Lockwood
Zbigniew Seifert Competition
The Jazz Violin Academy
Eva Slongo founded the Jazz Violin Academy, an online school that brings together her method for starting or refining jazz violin and improvisation, sheet music, and a comprehensive online course platform featuring numerous video lessons.
Eva also offers group classes, private lessons, and occasional workshops, providing a complete path to discover and deepen one’s practice of jazz violin.