Violin Master Class with Jennifer Curtis

The New York Times called Jennifer Curtis's second solo concert in Carnegie Hall "one of the gutsiest and most individual recital programs," and celebrated her as "an artist of keen intelligence and taste, well worth watching out for." Winner of Astral Artists Milka/Astral grand prize for violin and Artists International presentations, Jennifer is also an improviser, composer, multi-instrumentalist, member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and educator. She has performed with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Venezuela, The Knights Chamber Orchestra, been a featured artist at the Brasov International Festival in Romania in honor of George Enescu, been a featured violinist/composer and percussionist for El Festival de las Artes Esenias de Lima, Peru, and has appeared at the Mostly Mozart Festival, International Brahms Festival, Ecstatic Festival, Festival musique de chambre a Giverny, Darmstadt Festival, Iceland Airwaves Festival, Wein Modern Festival for Contemporary music and many more. In addition to founding the group, Tres Americas Ensemble, her projects include solo and chamber music performances with John Adams at the Library of Congress, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and serving as concertmaster of East Coast Chamber Orchestra's US tour. She holds degrees from Mills College and The Juilliard School, and has served on faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She plays on a 1777 Vincenzo Panormo violin.