Jennifer Frautschi is rapidly gaining acclaim as an adventurous performer with a wide-ranging repertoire. 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 Britten’s Violin Concerto, Poul Ruders’ Concerto No. 1, Steven Mackey’s Violin Sonata, and Mendelssohn’s rarely played Concerto in D minor, along with standard concertos by Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Berg. Selected by Carnegie Hall for its Distinctive Débuts series, she made her New York recital début in April 2004. An avid chamber musician, she has appeared widely, with performances at the Caramoor International Music Festival, where she has performed annually since André Previn first invited her there as a Rising Star in 1992, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and La Jolla Summerfest. She has given premières of important new works by Oliver Knussen, Krzystof Penderecki, Michael Hersch and others, and has recorded for Naxos a Grammy-nominated album (8.557520), with Schoenberg’s Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, conducted by Robert Craft who considers her one of the three or four finest violinists on the present musical scene.
Ms. Frautschi has performed with orchestras, at festivals and on recital series throughout the United States. She has appeared at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, Ravinia Festival’s Rising Stars series, the Phillips Collection and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and at the Gardner Museum in Boston. In Europe, Ms. Frautschi has toured Switzerland and Belgium, given live recital broadcasts on Radio Suisse-Romande and has performed at the Monnaie Opera House of Brussels and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders.
Ms. Frautschi has won several First Prize awards in prestigious competitions, including the Washington International Competition, the Irving Klein International String Competition, the Juilliard Concerto Competition and GM/Seventeen Magazine’s National Concerto Competition. She was named a United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts in 1990 and was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1999.
Jennifer Frautschi performs on a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the “ex-Cadiz”, on generous loan to her from a private American foundation.
| MAY 27: |
YMF Debut Orchestra, 7:30 pm
(http://www.ymf.org/)
Los Angeles, CA
Sean Newhouse, conductor
Program
Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63 (1935)
Walt Disney Concert Hall
The Music Center
Los Angeles, CA
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| JUNE 19- 21: |
Rome Chamber Music Festival, 9:00 pm
(http://www.romechamberfestival.org/)
with
Yoon Kwon, violin
Robert McDuffie, violin
Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin
Hsin-Yun Huang, viola
Nicholas Mann, viola
Gary Hoffman, cello
Marie-Stephanie Janecek, cello
Program
Vivaldi: Concerto in B Minor for four violins, RV 580
Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat Major, op. 20
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| JULY 7: |
Caramoor Orchestra of St. Luke's, 8:00 pm
(www.caramoor.org)
Andrew Armstrong, piano
Edward Arron, cello
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Program
Beethoven: Concerto in C major for Piano, Violin, Cello, and Orchestra ("Triple Concerto"), Op. 56
Venetian Theater
Caramoor
Katonah, NY
Box Office: 914-232-1252
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| JULY 9-10 : |
Chamber Music Northwest
(www.cmnw.org)
with
Theodore Arm, violin
Steven Copes, violin
Scott Lee, viola
Fred Sherry, cello
Shai Wosner, piano
Program
Arnold Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 10
Edward Elgar: Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84
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| JULY 12-13: |
Chamber Music Northwest
Bach Concerto Night |
| JULY 14-21: |
Newport Music Festival
(www.newportmusic.org)
Newport, RI
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| JULY 26: |
Caramoor International Festival, 7:30 pm
(www.caramoor.org)
with
Karen Gomyo, Ayano Ninomiya, violin
Nicholas Cords, Max Mandel, viola
Alexis Gerlach, Edward Arron, cello
Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Program
Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen(version for string sextet)
Dvorak: Quintet for piano, two violins, viola and cello, op. 81
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| JULY 27: |
Caramoor International Festival, 8:00 pm
with
Karen Gomyo, Ayano Ninomiya, violin
Nicholas Cords, Max Mandel, viola
Alexis Gerlach, Edward Arron, cello
Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Program
Beethoven: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 16
Zoltán Kodály: Serenade, Op. 12 for string trio
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| AUGUST 3-4: |
Boston Chamber Music Society , 8:00 pm
(www.bostonchambermusic.org)
Boston, MA
with
Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Mina Smith, cello
Program
Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49
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| AUGUST 24:: |
Saltbay Chamberfest, 8:00 pm
(www.saltbaychamberfest.org)
Damariscotta, ME
with
Eric Ruske, horn
Soovin Kim, violin
Hsin-Yun Huang, viola
Mina Smith, cello
Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Program
George Tsontakis: Dust for horn trio
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34
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| AUGUST 30: |
Moab Music Festival, 7:00 pm
(www.moabmusicfest.org)
Colorado River Benefit Concert
with
Eric Ruske, horn
Eric Zivian, piano
Program
Brahms: Trio In E Flat, Op. 40 for violin, piano and horn
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| AUGUST 31: |
Moab Music Festival, 7:00 pm
(www.moabmusicfest.org)
Damariscotta, ME
with
Karen Gomyo, violin
Leslie Tomkins, viola
LP How, viola
Edward Arron, cello
Tanya Tomkins, cello
Program
Brahms: String Sextet in B Flat Major, op. 18
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| SEPTEMBER 9: |
Charlottesville Music Festival, 3:00 pm
(www.cvillechambermusic.org)
Charlottesville, VA
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| SEPTEMBER 15 : |
Asheville Symphony Orchestra, 8:00 pm
(www.ashevillesymphony.org)
Asheville, NC
Daniel Myer, conductor
Program
Tchaikovsky: Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op.35
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| SEPTEMBER 16-23: |
IMS Open Chamber Music
(http://www.i-m-s.org.uk)
Prussia Cove, U.K.
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| SEPTEMBER 29-30 : |
Cape Symphony Orchestra, 8:00 pm (Sep 29); 3:00 pm (Sep 30)
(www.capesymphony.org)
Hyannis, MA
Jung Ho Pak, conductor
Program
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216
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| OCTOBER 14 : |
Family Concerts at the Y, 3:00 pm
92nd Street Y
New York, NY
with
Steven Isserlis, cello
The Messy Genius: The Life and Music of Ludwig van Beethoven
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| OCTOBER 18-20 : |
Phoenix Symphony, 7:30 pm (Oct 18); 11:00 am (Oct 19); 8:00 pm (Oct 20)
(www.phoenixsymphony.org)
James Sedaris, Music Director
Lawrence Golan, conductor
Program
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D Minor, WoO 23
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| NOVEMBER 10-11: |
Stamford Symphony, 8:00 pm (Nov 10); 3:00 pm (Nov 11)
(www.stamfordsymphony.org)
Stamford, CT
Eckart Preu, conductor
Program
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216
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| NOVEMBER 18-19 : |
Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum , 7:30 pm
(www.guggenheim.org)
with
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute
Jesse Mills, violin
Richard OÂNeill, viola
Fred Sherry, cello
Program
Jo Kondo Beginning, Middle and End
Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
New York, NY
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| DECEMBER 4 : |
Da Camera of Houston, 7:30 pm
(www.dacamera.com)
Houston, TX
with
Sara Rothenberg, piano
Program
Arvo PÀrt: Fratres
Pierre Boulez: Derives
Steven Stucky: Ad Parnassum
Menil Collection
Houston, TX
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