Jennifer Frautschi

Two-time GRAMMY nominee and Avery Fisher career grant recipient Jennifer Frautschi has garnered worldwide acclaim as a deeply expressive, musically adventurous violinist with impeccable technique and a wide-ranging repertoire.  Equally at home in the classic and contemporary repertoire, her recent seasons have featured performances and recordings of works ranging from Robert Schumann and Lili Boulanger to Barbara White and Arnold Schoenberg. 

Frautschi’s concerto appearances have spanned from the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez, to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach. She is an Artist Member of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and has performed at  virtually all of the premier chamber music series and festivals in the United States.

Born in Pasadena, California, Ms. Frautschi began the violin at age three under the Suzuki Method.  She was a student of Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles. She attended Harvard, the University of Southern California, the New England Conservatory of Music, and finished her studies with Robert Mann at The Juilliard School.  She is an Artist-in-Residence at Stony Brook University.  She performs on a glorious Antonio Stradivarius violin from 1722, the ‘ex-Cadiz,’ on generous loan to her from a private American foundation with support from Rare Violins In Consortium.