Jennifer Frautschi

Avery Fisher career grant recipient Jennifer Frautschi has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo Opera House. Selected by Carnegie Hall for its Distinctive Debuts series, she made her New York recital debut in Weill Hall; and as part of the European Concert Hall Organization’s Rising Stars series, debuted at ten of Europe’s most celebrated concert venues. As a chamber artist she has performed with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and appeared at the Lake Champlain, La Musica (Sarasota), Moab, Newport, Ojai, Salt Bay, Santa Fe, Seattle, and Spoleto USA Chamber Music Festivals; Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla Summerfest, Music@Menlo, and at the Library of Congress. Internationally, she has performed at Chanel’s Pygmalion Series in Tokyo, the Cartagena International Music Festival in Columbia, the Spoleto Festival of the Two Worlds and Rome Chamber Music Festival in Italy, St. Barth’s Music Festival in the French West Indies, and toured England with musicians from Prussia Cove. Her discography includes the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra, and two Grammy-nominated recordings of Schoenberg’s Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra and the Schoenberg Third String Quartet. Her most recent releases are with pianist John Blacklow: the first devoted to the three sonatas of Robert Schumann; the second, American Duos, an exploration of recent additions to the violin and piano repertoire by contemporary American composers. Other recent releases include a recording of Romantic horn trios with hornist Eric Ruske and pianist Stephen Prutsman, and the Stravinsky Duo Concertante with pianist Jeremy Denk. Born in Pasadena, California, Ms. Frautschi was a student of Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School. She also attended Harvard, NEC, and Juilliard, where she studied with Robert Mann. She performs on a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the “ex-Cadiz” on generous loan from a private American foundation. She currently teaches violin in the graduate program at Stony Brook University. She has been a BCMS member musician since 2016.