Violinist Laura Frautschi has a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player and concertmaster.

Laura tours internationally as a concertmaster, member and co-artistic director of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She has also served as concertmaster of the New York City Opera Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Lukes, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston, the San Antonio Symphony, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. In the summers, Laura serves as Principal 2nd Violin of the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center.

Laura collaborates frequently with living composers, presenting premieres of violin concerti by American composers Lee Hyla and Augusta Read Thomas, and leading Orpheus in works by Joan Tower and Jessie Montgomery, among others. Her chamber music activities include appearances at the Caramoor International Festival, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wellseley Composer Conference, St. Barths Music Festival and Colorado College Summer Music Festival and tours throughout Japan and the US as a member of piano trio Intersection, with cellist Kristina Cooper and pianist John Novacek.

Laura’s discography ranges from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the Festival Strings Lucerne to contemporary chamber works by Bernard Rands, Chen Yi, and Margaret Brouwer. With Intersection, she has also recorded and filmed numerous CDs and DVDs of short popular works in diverse genres, for Pony Canyon Records and Fuji TV.

Laura has a degree in applied mathematics from Harvard College and a masters in violin performance from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Robert Mann.