Photo by Dario Acosta
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Two-time Grammy nominee and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient violinist Jennifer Frautschi has appeared as soloist with innumerable orchestras including the Cincinnati, Chicago, and Milwaukee symphony orchestras; Los Angeles Philharmonic; and the Minnesota and Saint Paul Chamber orchestras. As a chamber musician she has performed with the Boston and Lincoln Center’s chamber music societies, and appeared at Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla Summerfest, Music@Menlo, Tippet Rise Art Center, and the Toronto Summer, Bridgehampton, Charlottesville, Lake Champlain, Moab, Ojai, Santa Fe, Seattle, and Spoleto music festivals.
Her extensive discography includes several discs for Naxos: the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, conducted by Robert Craft; and two Grammy-nominated recordings of Schoenberg with the Fred Sherry String Quartet. Her most recent releases are with pianist John Blacklow on Albany Records: the first of Schumann sonatas; the second, American Duos, featuring repertoire by contemporary American composers Barbara White, Steven Mackey, Elena Ruehr, Dan Coleman, and Stephen Hartke. She has also recorded three widely praised CDs for Artek: the Prokofiev concertos with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony; the violin music of Ravel and Stravinsky; and 20th-century works for solo violin. Other recordings include a disc of Romantic Horn Trios with hornist Eric Ruske and pianist Stephen Prutsman, and the Stravinsky Duo Concertant with pianist Jeremy Denk.
Born in Pasadena, California, Ms. Frautschi attended the Colburn School, Harvard, New England Conservatory, and the Juilliard School. She performs on a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the “ex-Cadiz.” She currently teaches in the graduate program at Stony Brook University.