Avery Fisher career grant recipient violinist Jennifer Frautschi has gained acclaim as an adventurous performer with a wide-ranging repertoire. As
the Chicago Tribune wrote, "the young violinist Jennifer Frautschi is molding a career with smart interpretations of both warhorses and rarities."
Equally at home in the classic repertoire as well as twentieth and twenty-first century works, in the past few seasons alone she has performed the
Britten Concerto, Poul Ruders' Concerto No. 1, Steven Mackey's Violin Sonata, and Mendelssohn's rarely played d minor Concerto, along with
standards such as the Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Berg Concerti.
Ms. Frautschi has created a sensation with appearances as soloist with Pierre Boulez and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach and the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival, and at Wigmore Hall and Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival. She has also soloed in recent
seasons with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Cincinnati Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, San
Diego Symphony, and Seattle Symphony.
Selected by Carnegie Hall for its Distinctive Debuts series, she made her New York recital debut in 2004. As part of the European Concert Hall
Organization's Rising Stars series, Ms. Frautschi also made debuts that year at ten of Europe's most celebrated concert venues, including London's
Wigmore Hall, Salzburg Mozarteum, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, and La Cité de la Musique in Paris. She has also been heard in
recital at the Ravinia Festival, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Washington's Phillips Collection, Boston's Gardner Museum, Beijing's Imperial
Garden, Monnaie Opera in Brussels, La Chaux des Fonds in Switzerland, and San Miguel de Allende Festival in Mexico.
Ms. Frautschi's 2010-11 highlights include return engagements with the Phoenix Symphony and Rhode Island Philharmonic, as well as appearances with
the Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais in Brazil, at the Britt Festival in Oregon, and with the Eugene, Jacksonville, and Sarasota
Symphonies, amongst others. She will also appear as guest at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Boston Chamber Music Society, and
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. 2009-10 highlights included opening night with the Utah Symphony, as well as appearances with the Pasadena and
Toledo Symphonies, the Buffalo and Boulder Philharmonics, and the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie in Germany. She toured England with
musicians from Prussia Cove, culminating with a concert in London's Wigmore Hall. She also performed at Caramoor, Lincoln Center, and in the
inaugural season of the Ringling International Arts Festival in Sarasota, where she premiered a new work by Mason Bates. Ms. Frautschi's 2008-09
season included a three week tour of the U.S. with the Czech Symphony Orchestra, performing the Mendelssohn and Bruch Concerti; recital appearances
in Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Detroit; a concert at Miller Theater in New York celebrating cellist Fred Sherry's 60th birthday with works by
Schoenberg and Wuorinen; and chamber music festivals in Cyprus (The Pharo's Trust) and the Czech Republic (Kutna Hora Festival).
As a chamber artist, Ms. Frautschi has appeared regularly at such festivals as Caramoor and Chamber Music Northwest, and the Charlottesville, La
Jolla Summerfest, La Musica (Sarasota), Moab, Music@Menlo, Newport, Rome, Santa Fe, Seattle, Spoleto (Italy), and St. Barth's (French West Indies)
Chamber Music Festivals, as well as at New York's Metropolitan and Guggenheim Museums of Art, the 92nd Street Y, and Mainly Mozart in San Diego.
She has premiered important new works by Oliver Knussen, Krzystof Penderecki, Michael Hersch, and others, and has appeared at New York's George
Crumb Festival and Stefan Wolpe Centenary Concerts.
Her growing discography includes three CDs for Artek: an orchestral debut recording of the Prokofiev concerti with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle
Symphony, and highly-acclaimed discs of music of Ravel and Stravinsky, and of 20th century works for solo violin. She has also recorded several
discs for Naxos, including a Grammy-nominated recording of Schoenberg's Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, and the Stravinsky Violin
Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, both conducted by the legendary Robert Craft; a new release of the Schoenberg Third String
Quartet, with the Fred Sherry String Quartet; and a forthcoming release of the Stravinsky Duo Concertant, with pianist Jeremy Denk. In addition, a
recording of Romantic Horn Trios, with hornist Eric Ruske and pianist Stephen Prutsman, will be released in the 2010-11 season on the Albany label.
Born in Pasadena, California, Ms. Frautschi began the violin at age three. She was a student of Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School for the
Performing Arts in Los Angeles. She also attended Harvard, the New England Conservatory of Music, and The Juilliard School, where she studied with
Robert Mann. She performs on a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the "ex-Cadiz," on generous loan to her from a private American
foundation.
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