Artist Biography
Jennifer Frautschi, Violin
Since making her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the age of sixteen, American violinist JENNIFER FRAUTSCHI has been heard in concerts throughout the United States, Europe and Mexico. Recipient of a prestigious 1999 Avery Fisher Career Grant, MS. FRAUTSCHI has won First Prize awards in the Washington International Competition, Irving Klein International String Competition, Kingsville (TX) International Music Competition, GM/Seventeen Magazine's National Concerto Competition, ARTS (Arts Recognition and Talent Search) and the Juilliard Concerto Competition. She was a top prize recipient in the 1998 Naumburg Violin Competition and the only American Laureate in the 1997 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition in Belgium. Subsequently, she gave a recital at the Monnaie Opera House of Brussels and played with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders, a critically acclaimed performance that was broadcast repeatedly on television throughout Northern Europe.
In recent seasons, JENNIFER FRAUTSCHI has made her Washington, D.C. recital debut at the Phillips Collection, given a series of recitals in Belgium and appeared in return solo engagements with the Peninsula and Santa Cruz Symphonies, as well as with the Asia America Symphony. She also appeared with her sister, violinist Laura Frautschi, in joint solo performances with the Madison and San Bernardino Symphony Orchestras, and as solo recitalist in New York at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. Named a United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts in 1990, MS. FRAUTSCHI'S recent seasons included a recital tour of Switzerland, live recital broadcasts on Radio Suisse Romande, WNYC (New York) and National Public Radio, as well as return engagements at both the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Caramoor International Music Festival, where she performed with Emanuel Ax and David Finckel. Born in 1973, MS. FRAUTSCHI began studying the violin at the age of three with Elizabeth Mills and continued her studies with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles and the University of Southern California School of Music. She has attended Harvard University and The Juilliard School, where she studied with Robert Mann and served as a teaching assistant to the Juilliard String Quartet.