{{Short description|American musician}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Jennifer Frautschi | image = | alt = | caption = | image_size = | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = 1973 | birth_place = Pasadena, California, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | origin = | instrument = Violin | genre = Classical | occupation = Musician | years_active = <!-- YYYY–YYYY --> | label = | associated_acts = | website = {{URL|www.jenniferfrautschi.com}} }} '''Jennifer Frautschi''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|r|aʊ|tʃ|i}}; born 1973<ref>{{Cite web|title=PIERRE BOULEZ CONDUCTS BERG AND BRUCKNER |url= https://www.laphil.com/press/releases/183|website=Los Angeles Philharmonic|language=en}}</ref>) is an American violinist. A recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, she is artist-in-Residence at Stony Brook University. She plays a 1722 Antonio Stradivari violin known as the "ex-Cadiz", on loan from a private American foundation.<ref name="Bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.jenniferfrautschi.com/info.asp?pk=276 |title=Biography |publisher=www.jenniferfrautschi.com |access-date=November 19, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100702093411/http://www.jenniferfrautschi.com/info.asp?pk=276 |archive-date=July 2, 2010 }}</ref><ref name="Wali115">{{cite book|last=Wali|first=Kameshwar C.|title=Cremona Violins: A Physicist's Quest for Secrets of Stradivari|url=https://archive.org/details/cremonaviolinsph00wali|url-access=limited|year=2010|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-279-110-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cremonaviolinsph00wali/page/n131 115]|quote=Jennifer Frautschi, for instance, plays on a Stradivari instrument, made in 1772, named Cadiz.}}</ref>
== Biography == Frautschi was born in Pasadena, California, and began to play the violin at age three.<ref name="Bio" /> She studied with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School and later attended Harvard University, the New England Conservatory, and the Juilliard School, where she studied with Robert Mann.<ref name="Bio" />
Frautschi won top prizes at the Queen Elisabeth Competition and the Naumburg International Violin Competition in New York, and received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1999. She has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Pierre Boulez, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach at the Ravinia Festival, Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Utah Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, and the Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo.<ref name="Bio" />
In 2004, Frautschi made her recital debut at Carnegie Hall in New York.<ref name="Bio" /> In Europe, she has appeared at venues such as the Wigmore Hall in London, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Konzerthaus in Vienna, and Cité de la Musique in Paris.<ref name="Bio" /> She has also played with operas and festivals including the Imperial Garden in Beijing, La Monnaie in Brussels, La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, and San Miguel de Allende Festival in Mexico.<ref name="Bio" />
In 2008–2009 she toured the US for three weeks with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. In 2010–2011 she performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra and the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and toured the UK with musicians from Prussia Cove.<ref name="Bio" />
Frautschi has released recordings on Artek, including an orchestral debut recording of the Prokofiev concerti with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and on NAXOS, including a recording of Schoenberg's Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, which earned a Grammy nomination,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naxos.com/person/Jennifer_Frautschi/6748.htm|title=Jennifer Frautschi|publisher=Naxos|accessdate=November 19, 2010}}</ref> and the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London.<ref name="Bio" />
== Reception == The ''Kansas City Star'' wrote, "Frautschi possesses a lush, florid tone, a sure musical sense and a forthright knowledge of where she wants to go with any given phrase".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/mixed-ensembles/product/jennifer-frautschi-violin-efe-baltacigil-cello-ignat-solzhenitsyn-piano/|title=Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Efe Baltacigil, cello; Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano|publisher=Philadelphia Chamber Music Society|accessdate=November 19, 2010}}</ref>
== Personal life == Frautschi's father is the theoretical physicist Steven Frautschi.
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== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.jenniferfrautschi.com}}
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