Hailing from a family of Alaskan bush pilots and pioneers, Caitlin Warbelow is a violinist and entrepreneur in New York.

Caitlin originated and performs the violinist and fiddler book for the critically acclaimed Tony Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated Broadway musical COME FROM AWAY, which she joined in 2015 for productions in Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Toronto before opening on Broadway in 2017. The original Broadway production of COME FROM AWAY has been seen by over one million people; four additional companies now tour America, Canada, the UK, Australia, and China. Prior to joining COME FROM AWAY, Caitlin performed in the pit orchestra for Sting’s Broadway musical, THE LAST SHIP. In 2019, in collaboration with conductor Robert Franz and the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Caitlin commissioned and premiered a sold-out, full-length program of traditional American and Celtic music arranged for fiddle and symphony by the Golden Globe-nominated Irish composer Brian Byrne.

An in-demand teacher with a unique self-developed curriculum blending classical technique and theory with folk music's oral tradition and styles, Caitlin teaches students of all ages and abilities out of her NYC studio, at festivals nationwide, and via Skype.  She specializes in teaching absolute beginners, adult amateurs, and children who wish to supplement their classical studies.  In addition to her large private teaching studio, she is on the faculty at Manhattan's Irish Arts Center and is an artistic coordinator and guest artist at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, as well as a founding artist and occasional returning guest at the Far North Fiddle Festival. Caitlin’s contributions to the New York Irish music community and her commitment to education were honored in June, 2018 by the Irish Arts Center in Manhattan, where she is a member of the faculty. Since 2018, Caitlin has taught and performed at Celtic Week at the Swannanoa Gathering. She is a former University of Alaska-Fairbanks adjunct professor.

Caitlin completed a successful Kickstarter campaign in support of her first full-length studio album as well as the creation of a new Irish fiddle method book and recordings. The latter project is still in progress, but the completed album, the lush and imaginative self-titled WARBELOW RANGE, was released in 2018. Dan Lowery on flute, Kyle Sanna on guitar, Alan Murray on bouzouki, James Yoshizawa on percussion, Mathias Kunzli on percussion, and Jason Sypher on bass, join Caitlin on the record. Caitlin also recorded and produced MANHATTAN ISLAND SESSIONS, a live recording featuring fifteen young traditional musicians playing tunes in three Manhattan pubs, in 2012. The CD was nominated for an Independent Music Award. 

Though born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, Caitlin began her music studies at age three in the Boston Suzuki program with Mr. Donald Becker while her father studied at Harvard Business School. After returning to Fairbanks, a far-north bastion of arts, music, and education during her childhood, Caitlin continued her Suzuki studies with Leslie Salisbury, Dr. Gail Johansen, and Dr. Kathleen Butler-Hopkins, going on to win honors from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts and the National Suzuki Conference as well as scholarships at the Meadowmount School (studying under Julliard’s Professor Sally Thomas), Boston University (studying with Mr. Yuri Mazurkevitch), and Columbia University.  In the folk and traditional realms, she holds championship titles at the New England Fiddle Championship and  the Fleadh Cheoil (All-Ireland Competition). 

Although classically trained, Caitlin discovered a passion for traditional genres at a young age and has studied both concurrently throughout her life. During a solo trip to Ireland to study Irish traditional music at the Willy Clancy School and the BLAS School of Irish Traditional Music at the University of Limerick at age 16, Caitlin met young American musicians Isaac Alderson, Sarah Wilfong, Dan Sheffield, Ryan McGiver, and Dan Lowery, with whom she formed the band Surreel. Though Surreel was short-lived, it served as a launching pad for the like-minded young musicians’ future careers and continuing musical partnerships.

Known as something of a musical chameleon, Caitlin performs, records, and teaches extensively in NYC and around the country in a variety of genres including Irish traditional and rock, country and bluegrass, Texas swing and contest fiddling, and on occasion returns to her roots as a classical violinist. A sought-after and charismatic performer at home in a variety of styles, genres, and venues, she is honored to have shared the stage with Cherish the Ladies, Mick Moloney and the Green Fields of America, The Alt (John Doyle, Nuala Kennedy, and Eamon O'Leary), the Cathie Ryan Band, Troy and Sabra MacGillivray, Kevin Crawford, Cillian Vallely, Kevin Burke, Gabriel Donohue, Trinity Dance Company, The Brock McGuire Band, Michael Londra, Celtic Fire, Manus McGuire, The Prodigals, and The Mickey Finns, and many others.  In 2014, Caitlin was asked to become the violinist and fiddler for Riverdance's new stage production, HEARTBEAT OF HOME.

 An unrepentant data nerd and a scientist and activist at heart (having titled her masters thesis “Air Pollution, Health, and Environmental Justice in Harlem: Particulate Matter Monitoring, GIS, and Spatial Data Analysis for Policy and Planning”), Caitlin is fighting for equal pay and rights for women and minorities, for fair hiring practices, and for improved air quality and safety for workers and audiences members, on Broadway and other stages. On the subjects of education, environment, climate change, especially when it comes to her home state of Alaska, she is a fierce advocate and activist, involved in numerous projects, initiatives, and nascent business plans aimed at living more lightly on this planet. Prior to her current projects, Caitlin worked for the United State Census Bureau, at Columbia University’s Institute of Social and Economic Policy and Research, and at Columbia’s Lehman Library, as a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyst and data consultant.

Caitlin earned her master’s degree in Urban Planning from Columbia University at the age of 24 and was awarded two bachelor’s degrees from Boston University in Violin Performance and Anthropology at the age of 20.  When she doesn't have a violin, a writing utensil, a book, or a research device in her hands, Caitlin pursues her many entrepreneurial endeavors, works ferociously to make the world a better place, and is always in the mood for delicious food, long naps, cute animals, solitude, cold places, good snow, unusual people, five-mile runs, and dubious adventures and curiosities of all sorts.