Roswitha has had an esteemed career....

"Her dedication to achieving success in a difficult field has been inspiring… She is also a gifted composer” - Kenny Werner

”A fine talent who is expected to touch the world with a profoundly deep soul which she uniquely possesses.” - Cecil McBee

"Interesting use of voice and violin together, a very fresh sound” - Christian Howes

“I’m very vulnerable on this album,” says violinist, producer, and singer-songwriter Roswitha. “I want to create a shift from negative to empowering messages and inspire people to live their dreams because I know how much strength it takes.” On her latest album, Destiny, the renowned jazz and classical artist lives her own dreams, making the bold move to step out as a singer-songwriter.

Here, she embraces her total musicality and tastefully integrates her instrumental virtuosity within a musical style Roswitha started to describe as Jazz Rock Pop. It’s an elegantly eclectic blend of jazz, classical, R&B, hip-hop, rock and pop that showcases her gorgeous compositions and soulfully angelic vocals.

Previously, Roswitha has had an esteemed career as “Queen Rose,” a topflight violinist. She has appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, in the movie August Rush, at the Latin Grammy’s, and was featured on MTV’s Unplugged with Trey Songz. As a member of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, she has performed with the likes of John Legend, Santana, Gloria Estefan and Patti LaBelle.

Under the name “Rose Bartu,” she’s also built a highly respected jazz profile sharing stages with such icons as Abbey Lincoln, Billy Hart, Joanne Brackeen and Butch Morris and issued the delightfully exotic Cherchez la Verité, a silky jazz album with violin, sensual vocals, and limber Afro Cuban grooves. She lead her own bands performing at celebrated venues like The Blue Note, Knitting Factory and touring Europe. She has notched over 50 production, arrangement, composition and performance credits on over 19 released albums, videos and film soundtracks.

“This change in my career represents coming into my own, presenting myself authentically. I’m embracing all my musical influences and aspects of my creativity, my singing, songwriting, violin playing, and producing,” Roswitha says of her creative breakthrough, her Jazz Rock Pop - album Destiny. “I had no style in mind, I just wanted to create an album you can listen through from beginning to end.

My focus was on creating the best songs and delivering them in a way that the message gets heard. It was all about what each song needed, that’s why my violin playing is not so featured. I am surprised of what people hear in it,” Roswitha continues: “In recent years I mostly listened to Soul music. But Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Sting and Prince have been my first popular music influences, maybe it should not surprise me that people hear.