Pamela Frank

Pamela Frank's violin music has filled world stages. She has appeared as soloist with major orchestras, including the Boston, Chicago, Houston, Vienna, Israel, and Munich symphony orchestras. She has performed under esteemed conductors such as Barenboim, Ozawa, Previn, and Slatkin, as well as von Dohnanyi, Eschenbach and Zinman. She toured Europe as a soloist with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; she toured America with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Danish National Symphony. Ms. Frank made her Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1995 and gave an acclaimed Beethoven Sonata cycle with Claude Frank, her father, at London's Wigmore Hall. Pursuing her passion for chamber music, she frequently collaborated with Peter Serkin, Yo-Yo-Ma and Tabea Zimmermann. In 1999, she was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honors given to American instrumentalists. Today she is equally renowned as a proponent of chamber music, as a performer and an educator. She serves on the music faculty at SUNY Stony Brook, the Peabody Conservatory and her alma mater the Curtis Institute.