Pamela Frank American violinist Pamela Frank has established an outstanding international reputation across an unusually varied range of performing activity. In addition to her extensive schedule of engagements with prestigious orchestras throughout the world and her recitals on the leading concert stages, she is regularly sought after as a chamber music partner by today's most distinguished soloists and ensembles. The breadth of this accomplishment and her consistently high level of musicianship were recognized in 1999 with the Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honors given to American instrumentalists. Her schedule for the summer of 1999 included her second tour of Australia, a BBC Proms concert with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, a German tour with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (including performances as both leader and soloist) and a return to the Salzburg Festival to play Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364 with violist Tabea Zimmermann and the Mozarteum Orchestra. During the 1999-2000 season she makes appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the NHK Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony and the Tonhalle Orchestra (Zurich), among other ensembles. She tours extensively with her father, pianist Claude Frank, giving recitals with him in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, as well as in Japan and Europe. She also joins the Danish National Symphony Orchestra led by Yuri Temirkanov as soloist for its American tour in the spring of 2000, including a Carnegie Hall concert. Among the highlights of Pamela Frank's other engagements in recent seasons have been concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Czech Philharmonic, the Houston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the San Francisco Symphony and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. She has performed under many esteemed conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Christoph Eschenbach, Bernard Haitink, Seiji Ozawa, Andre Previn, Leonard Slatkin and, most regularly, Yuri Temirkanov and David Zinman. She has been the soloist for a number of major orchestral tours, including a European tour with the Detroit Symphony, tours of Germany with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and American tours with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Baltimore Symphony. Ms. Frank made her Carnegie Hall recital debut in April 1995 and gave an acclaimed Beethoven Sonata cycle with Claude Frank at London's Wigmore Hall in December 1997. She has appeared at numerous festivals in Europe and the United States, including the Aldeburgh Festival, the Berlin Festival, the Blossom Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Tanglewood and Verbier: Her passion for chamber music continues to find a variety of outlets. In addition to her partnership with Claude Frank, she works regularly with pianist Peter Serkin. Her other frequent collaborators, drawn from a large group of chamber music colleagues, include Yo-Yo Ma, Tabea Zimmermann and Alexander Simionescu. She has played chamber music programs at the Edinburgh and Salzburg Festivals, and appeared on a "Live from Lincoln Center" telecast devoted to Schubert (including the "Trout" Quintet). For many years she took part in the Marlboro Festival in Vermont as well as the subsequent Music from Marlboro tours. Ms. Frank has also participated in several of the Isaac Stern chamber music seminars at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Centre as part of a group of performer-teachers assisting Mr. Stern. In the recording studio, Pamela Frank has made two discs for London/Decca: the Dvorak Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic and the Brahms Sonatas with Peter Serkin. She has also recorded the complete Mozart Violin Concertos with David Zinman and the Tonhalle Orchestra (Arte Nova), a Schubert album with Claude Frank (Arte Nova), and the Beethoven sonata cycle,also with Claude Frank (MusicMasters), now available as complete set on three discs. For Sony Classical, she has recorded the Chopin Piano Trio with Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma, the "Trout" Quintet, and is featured on the soundtrack to the film "Immortal Beloved." While committed to the standard repertoire, Ms. Frank also has an affinity for contemporary music, often including works by today's composers on her programs. In March 1998 she gave the world premiere of a new concerto by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich commissioned for her by Carnegie Hall with Hugh Wolff and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. In 1997, as part of her annual visit Japan, Ms. Frank joined Peter Serkin, Yo-Yo Ma and Richard Stoltzman at Toru Takemitsu's Tokyo Opera City, playing works of Takemitsu and others. She has also premiered and recorded two works by Aaron Jay Kernis, a piano quartet ("Still Movement with Hymn") and a piece for violin and orchestra ("Lament and Prayer"). Born in New York City, Pamela Frank is the daughter of noted pianists Claude Frank and Lilian Kallir; the three have frequently played chamber music both at home and before the public. Ms. Frank began her violin studies at age 5 and after 11 years as a pupil of Shirley Givens continued her musical education with Szymon Goldberg and Jaime Laredo. In 1985 she formally launched her career with the first of her four appearances with Alexander Schneider and the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. A recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1988, she graduated the following year from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Pamela Frank is newly married to Alexander (Andy) Simionescu and and they make their home in the New York area. DECEMBER 1999