Jennifer Frautschi, violin: with John Blacklow, piano

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.

Born in Pasadena, California, Ms. Frautschi began the violin at age three. She was a student of Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles. She also attended Harvard, the New England Conservatory of Music, and The Juilliard School, where she studied with Robert Mann. She performs on a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the "ex-Cadiz," on generous loan to her from a private American foundation.

The program for this concert will feature sonatas by Mozart and Ravel.

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This performance will be supported, in part, by the Kitty Macdonnell Fund, which honors the late Friends of Beckman Auditorium coordinator and tireless organizer of the Dabney Lounge Chamber Music Series. For information about the Fund, call (626) 395-4695.

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