Jennifer Frautschi

Jennifer Frautschi is an American classical violinist. She plays an Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the exCadiz, dated to 1722 which a private American foundation gave to her on loan.

Frautschi was born in Pasadena, California and began to play the violin at the age of three. At the Colburn School in Los Angeles she was a student of Robert Lipsett and later attended prestigious schools such as Harvard University, the New England Conservatory, and the Juilliard School, where she studied under Robert Mann. She later received an Avery Fisher career grant and appeared as a soloist with Pierre Boulez and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival and has soloed with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Seattle Symphony.

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