Jennifer Frautschi (violin) is a winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant. She 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, and Peter Oundjian and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at 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. As chamber musician, 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 in 1992. She has also performed at such festivals as La Musica (FL), Music@Menlo (CA), Santa Fe, Seattle, Spoleto (Italy), Summerfest La Jolla, and St. Barth’s.
Her discography includes three discs for the Artek label of the Prokofiev concerti with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony, music of Ravel and Stravinsky, and 20th century works for solo violin. She has also recorded several discs for Naxos: 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.
