Dr. Laraine Kaizer-Viazovtsev was born in Peoria, IL where she earned her Bachelor of Music

Degree in 1998 majoring in violin performance from Bradley University studying with Marcia

Henry. In 2000 she graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN as a violin

performance major violin pedagogy minor studying with Mauricio Fuks. She received her

Doctorate of Musical Arts Diploma in 2004 with the same major and minor concentrations

from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH

studying with Kurt Sassmannshaus. Currently Laraine is the assistant principal second

violinist in the Las Vegas Philharmonic, a violinist in the Celine Dion show, a free lance 

'strolling  violinist,' specializing in a wide variety of styles, a free lance visual artist, a

chamber music coach and private teacher at the Nevada School of the Arts, Para-

Professional at Las Vegas Academy, a member of the Bishr Hijazi Arabic Ensemble, and a 

group performing Alex Clements' jazz compositions in an Afro Cuban Style, and a guest

artist with Boxhead Ensemble performing original improvised music. 

In 2004 she launched a visual arts career with her paintings.

She had some drawing lessons in high school (1994) with artist Carol Spengel, and an introduction to oils

class in 2004 at UC. Otherwise her art training was hours of drawing for fun since an early age.

Laraine is currently a violinist in the Las Vegas Philharmonic, free lance ‘strolling’ violinist, Chamber Music

Program Coordinator at the Nevada School of the Arts and part-time violin instructor at UNLV in Las

Vegas, NV.

Laraine's specialty is improvising in a wide variety of styles and creating "arrangements" on the spot for

recordings using multiple tracks. Recent projects for producer and musician 

Michael Krasner include the albums of Try Me Bicycle and Simon Joyner as well as the movie sound

tracks of Jean Claude Van-Damme's latest installment : "Universal Soldier 3, Regeneration," Braden King's

new film: "Here" and a new PBS documentary: "People of the Seal."