Jennifer Shizuka Frautschi
Violin
Two-time GRAMMY nominee and Avery Fisher career grant recipient Jennifer Shizuka Frautschi appears this season as soloist with the Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra, performs a ‘reimagining’ of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with Asheville Symphony, and gives two repeat performances of the James Stephenson’s Violin Concerto, a work she premiered with Minnesota Orchestra and O.Vanska, at the Cabrillo Festival and Elgin Symphony. She will also perform with the Brevard, Des Moines, Elgin, Kalamazoo, Santa Barbara, and Wheeling Symphonies, and at the St. Barth’s Music Festival. She has appeared as soloist with P.Boulez and the LA Phil, C.Eschenbach and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival, and at Wigmore Hall and Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival. As a chamber artist she has appeared at the Boston and Lincoln Center Chamber Music Societies; the Charlottesville, Lake Champlain, LaMusica, Moab, Newport, Ojai, Salt Bay, Santa Fe, Seattle, and Spoleto Chamber Music Festivals; Bravo! Vail, Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla Summerfest, and Music@Menlo. Born in Pasadena, California, Ms. Frautschi attended the Colburn School, Harvard, NEC, and the Juilliard School. She teaches in the graduate program at Stony Brook University.
(As of May, 2018)
(As of May, 2018)