Jennifer Frautschi
violin

Winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, violinist Jennifer Frautschi has appeared as soloist in recent seasons with Pierre Boulez and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival, Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony, and Peter Oundjian and the Orchestra of St. Luke's at opening night of the Caramoor International Festival. Selected by Carnegie Hall for its Distinctive Debuts series, she gave her first New York recital at Weill Hall in April 2004. She also gave debut recitals in ten of Europe's foremost concert venues, including London's Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, La Cite de la Musique in Paris, and the Salzburg Mozarteum.

Ms. Frautschi's 2008-09 season highlights include a three week tour of the US with the Czech Symphony Orchestra performing the Mendelssohn and Bruch Concerti, a concert at Miller Theater in New York celebrating cellist Fred Sherry's 60th birthday with Schoenberg and Wuorinen, and chamber music festivals in Cyprus and the Czech Republic, as well as returning to one of her favorite places: the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival. Last season included engagements at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw playing the Beethoven Concerto; as soloist with orchestras in Germany and Russia, and with the Florida Orchestra and Madison, Phoenix, San Antonio, and Syracuse Symphonies; as chamber musician at the 92nd Street Y, NY's Metropolitan and Guggenheim Museums, Chamber Music Northwest, Moab Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, and Rome Chamber Music Festival; and a recital of all Stravinsky works for violin and piano at Miller Theater's Stravinsky Festival.

She regularly performs at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Caramoor, where she has performed annually since André Previn first invited her there as a "Rising Star" in 1992. She has also performed at such chamber music festivals as La Musica (FL), Music@Menlo (CA), Santa Fe, Seattle, Spoleto (Italy), Summerfest La Jolla, and St. Barth's (French West Indies).
Her orchestral debut recording for Artek, of the Prokofiev concerti with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony, follows two highly-acclaimed Artek 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, and a forthcoming disc of the Schoenberg Third String Quartet with Jesse Mills, Richard Oneill, and Fred Sherry.