Jennifer Orchard
Ron & Dorothy Chutz chair
Canadian violinist, Jennifer Orchard, has traveled the world performing as a chamber musician, soloist, and presently as first violinist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
During her eight-year tenure with the world renowned Lark Quartet, she toured Europe, Asia, South Pacific, Scandinavia, Mexico and the United States.
Ms. Orchard’s extensive discography with the Lark Quartet on Arabesque Records includes the works of Robert Schumann, Alfred Schnittke, Peter Schickele, Arnold Schoenberg, Alexander Zemlinsky, Amy Beach, Alexander Borodin and the Pulitzer Prize winning quartet by Aaron Jay Kernis – one of several new works for string quartet commissioned by the Lark Quartet.
Since moving to Pittsburgh for the Pittsburgh Symphony position, Ms. Orchard was invited to join the Pittsburgh Piano Trio. The group maintains busy touring and recording schedule. In recent seasons the Pittsburgh Trio performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, the St Petersburg Conservatory and the Moscow Conservatory Grand Hall where the Trio presented Russian premiere of the Triple Concerto of Paul Juon with the Tchaikovsky State Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir Fedoseev.
As a member of the Trio, Ms. Orchard recorded 3 CDs on Minstrel label, including Phantasie, a disc dedicated to music of British composer Frank Bridge and includes the world premier recording of his violin sonata; Encore!...Encore!, a collection of short works for piano trio and the most recent, a CD of Russian music which includes Piano Trio by Gerogy Sviridov and Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok for soprano and piano trio.
A free copy of “Encore!...Encore!” can be obtained at www.FreeTrioCd.com.
Ms. Orchard completed her undergraduate education at the Curtis Institute of Music with Szymon Goldberg and her master’s degree from the Juilliard School with Robert Mann and has participated at the Marlboro Music Festival.
Ms.Orchard is a faculty member of the annual Pittsburgh Advanced Chamber Music Seminar - www.ProChamberMusic.com.
She plays on an Andreas Guarnerius violin, dated circa 1676.
When not performing, Jennifer enjoys raising her two children, Natalia, five and Sasha three.
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