Fairfax Symphony Orchestra presents a masterclass with renowned violinist Jennifer Frautschi on Saturday, January 17, 2009, at 10:00AM - 12:00noon.
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 2004.
As part of the European Concert Hall Organization's Rising Stars series, Ms. Frautschi also made debuts that year at ten of Europe's most celebrated concert venues, including London's Wigmore Hall, Salzburg Mozarteum, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, and La Cite 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 2008-09 season highlights include a three week tour of the U.S. with the Czech Symphony Orchestra, performing the Mendelssohn and Bruch Concerti; recital appearances in Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Detroit; performances with orchestra in Canton, Napa, CA, Fairfax, Williamsburg, Beaumount, TX and Melbourne, FL and La Cruces, NM; a concert at Miller Theater in New York celebrating cellist Fred Sherry's 60th birthday with Schoenberg and Wuorinen; and chamber music festivals in Cyprus and the Czech Republic.
Her 2007-08 season included engagements at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw playing the Beethoven Concerto; as soloist with orchestras in Germany and Russia, and with the Florida Orchestra and Madison, Phoenix, San Antonio, Chautauqua, and Syracuse Symphonies; as chamber musician at the 92nd Street Y, NY's Metropolitan and Guggenheim Museums, Chamber Music Northwest, Moab Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, and Rome Chamber Music Festival; and a recital of all-Stravinsky works for violin and piano at Miller Theater's Stravinsky Festival.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Frautschi appears this season as chamber artist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Boston Chamber Music Society, Mainly Mozart in San Diego, and the Caramoor International Music Festival, where she has performed annually since Andre 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 Grammynominated 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 forthcoming releases of the Schoenberg Third String Quartet and Stravinsky Duo Concertant. -- www.fairfaxsymphony.org
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