Julie Rosenfeld

Violin

(860) 486-4758
julie.rosenfeld@uconn.edu

Los Angeles native Julie Rosenfeld has been the First Violinist of the Colorado Quartet since 1982. Since winning both the First Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Award within ten days in 1983, she and the Quartet have played more than 1200 concerts, touring throughout every part of the United States and Canada, and in more than 20 other countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium, England, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Bosnia, Norway, Denmark, Israel, Korea, the British Virgin Islands, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico. Their recordings of both standard and contemporary repertoire (most recently the complete Quartets of Beethoven) have garnered praise from critics far and wide, as has their championing of many of today’s leading composers such as Karel Husa, Joan Tower, Richard Wernick, Katherine Hoover, George Tsontakis and Libby Larsen. The Colorado Quartet is dedicated to education, having founded and run the Soundfest Festival and Institute of String Quartets for the past 20 years in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and was the Quartet-in-Residence at Bard College from 2000 until 2009. They have held residencies at Oberlin, Swarthmore and Amherst Colleges, and given Master Classes at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Eastman School and at Yale University.

Since 2009, Ms. Rosenfeld has been Professor of Violin In-Residence at the University of Connecticut. She attended the Curtis Institute and received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Southern California, and her Masters from Yale University, studying with such eminent teachers as Szymon Goldberg, Nathan Milstein, Robert Mann, and Yukiko Kamei. Ms. Rosenfeld has served on juries for the Astral Foundation, the Juilliard School, and the Banff, Coleman, and Concert Artists Guild Competitions, and has taught violin and chamber music at the European Mozart Academy in Poland. She has performed at the Marlboro, Santa Fe, Newport and La Jolla Chamber Music Festivals and has appeared as a guest with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She has collaborated with André Previn on the West Coast premiere of his Violin Sonata and on two CDs of French chamber music for BMG Classics.

Julie plays on a JB Guadagnini violin, made around 1760, and on a bow crafted in the early 19th Century by Dominique Peccatte.