Joanna Jenner, Violin

As a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra since 1972, Joanna Jenner has toured throughout the world and recorded more than forty discs. She has appeared as soloist with them, most recently in Vivaldi's Spring Season, and in many chamber music tours, most recently a tour to Madrid, Bratislava, Athens, and Warsaw. She is the founder and artistic director of the Riverrun Chamber Players, in residence at the Vermont Festival of the Arts. She has also participated in chamber music festivals in Bennington and Stowe, Vermont; Crested Butte, Colorado; the Grand Tetons, Wyoming; Rockport and Marblehead, Massachusetts; Hamden-Sydney, Virginia; Lockenhaus, Austria; and Prussia Cove, England. Performing on both violin and viola, as a member of the Empire Trio for several years, she presented concerts and lectures throughout the U.S. and recorded for Crystal Records. Formerly with the International Trio, in residence at the University of Northern Iowa, she performed in the Midwest and on NPR.

Interested in expanding the scope of the violin in concert, she has commissioned "performance art" works from Jon Deak, Larry Bell, and Elizabeth Brown and introduced them to audiences from New York to Alaska. She appears in solo works by Allen Shawn on two Opus One recordings.

She has taught at Bennington College, the University of Northern Iowa, the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music and has served as artist-in-residence at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. She has given master classes at the Seattle Music Festival and at SUNY Purchase in violin and chamber music.

As a native of Seattle, she attended the University of Washington as an honors student of Emanuel Zetlin, received her Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Ivan Galamian and Oscar Shumsky, and received her master in music degree from the Mannes College of Music as a student of Felix Galimir.

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