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Jennifer
Frautschi
July
1, 2008
Avery Fisher
Career Grant recipient violinist Jennifer Frautschi is rapidly
gaining acclaim as an adventurous performer with a wide-ranging
repertoire. As the Chicago Tribune recently 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 in recent seasons with appearances as
soloist 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, Peter
Oundjian and the Orchestra of St. Luke's at opening night of
the Caramoor International Festival, and at Wigmore Hall and
Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.
Selected by
Carnegie Hall for its Distinctive Debuts series, she made her
New York recital debut in April 2004. As part of the European
Concert Hall Organization's Rising Stars series, Ms. Frautschi
also made debuts 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
2007-08 season highlights include engagements at the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw playing the Beethoven Concerto; as soloist with
orchestras in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Russia; and with
the Madison, Phoenix, San Antonio, and Syracuse Symphonies, and
Florida and San Diego Chamber Orchestras. She will also appear
at New York's 92nd Street Y and Guggenheim Museum. In the summer
of 2007 she appeared at Chamber Music Northwest and the Moab,
Newport, and Rome Chamber Music Festivals, as well as the Caramoor
International Festival, where she performed the Beethoven Triple
Concerto with the Orchestra of St. Luke's.
An avid chamber
musician, Ms. Frautschi returns this season as chamber artist
to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Boston Chamber
Music Society, and the Caramoor International Music Festival,
where she has performed annually since André Previn first
invited her there as a "Rising Star" in 1992. She has
also appeared at such chamber music festivals as Charlottesville
(VA), Music@Menlo (CA), Seattle, Spoleto (Italy), Summerfest
La Jolla, Santa Fe, and St. Barth's (French West Indies). 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.
Formerly a member of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Two, she is a frequent guest at the Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center.
Her growing
discography includes three widely-praised 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;
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.
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. |
