Cassandra Castor Gervil

Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Cassandra began her violin studies at the famed Holy Trinity Music School where she is now one of the violin teachers on staff. Cassandra has participated in quite a few pedagogy seminars sponsored by BLUME Haiti, including:

  • Teaching the very young violinist

  • Violin Pedagogy - First steps

  • General Pedagogy

  • Band Instrument Repair Techniques

Cassandra has provided terrific leadership as Principal Second Violin in the Haitian Orchestra and has attended many music camps as a BLUME Haiti scholarship student. During the pandemic, Cassandra has been very enterprising, taking part in the 2020 Etude Challenge founded by Victoria Joseph, participating in an online concert with the Chilean performer Roberto Salazar and more. 

For Cassandra, music is “like water, like the sun that we need to have every day to live.” It “is the center of creation” in her life and allows her to “overcome all types of obstacles and…to find the right direction in [her] social life and environment.” Especially given the current difficult situation in Haiti, music helps Cassandra “stay balanced in [her] social life every day.”  Cassandra says she loves to teach because she wants to give others the same chance she had to study music and to see the changes that music can make in a person's life. 

In Cassandra’s own words, music is the greatest source that can allow a person to develop and make progress…because music is hope, it brings joy and…helps you to understand what you can do in your life.”

Cassandra credits her participation in many of the various social/cultural activities offered by BLUME Haiti to all Haitian musicians to creating major changes in her musical life, enabling her to help others too. During the confinement of the pandemic, she was able to participate in an online concert with the Chilean Roberto Salazar and this gave her the opportunity to “share the knowledge that was offered by BLUME Haiti with other people in African countries…this was a pleasure” for her.  

It was the “knowledge [she] received through BLUME Haiti and that pushed [her] to think about creating a music school - it could be called Cassandramusique.”

Cassandra says: “With all of this support I don’t have anything else I can say or offer. Respect for BLUME , thank you BLUME and continue with the good work you do in my country of Haiti.”