Jennifer Orchard's Discography

 Orchard is an inspiring virtuoso chamber musician with imagination, soulfulness and taste.

- Mark Kanny, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

  Canadian violinist, Jennifer Orchard has repeatedly brought dynamic and highly acclaimed performances to audiences worldwide. As a soloist, Ms. Orchard has performed both the classic and the cutting edge with orchestras across Canada and the United States and continually participates in the world's finest musical festivals including the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont and the Mehli Mehta Festival in Mumbai, India. Ms. Orchard most recently performed the Brahms Double Concerto with cellist Mikhail Istomin and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Other recent solo engagements include collaborations with the legendary Marvin Hamlisch at the Kuwaiti Embassy and performances with Irish fiddle player, Eileen Ivers.

Ms. Orchard concertized for eight years with the internationally renowned Lark Quartet, touring Germany, Great Britain, Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, and United States (including performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, St. Paul's Ordway Theater, and New York's Avery Fisher and Carnegie Halls), all to overwhelming praise from critics and audiences alike. During the quartet?s three-year residency at Ohio University (1995-98), Ms Orchard worked to expand the string quartet repertoire, co-commissioning "Musica Instrumentalis" a quartet by Aaron J. Kernis that won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for composition. A PBS documentary that highlighted the quartet's diverse educational and outreach activities at Ohio University has been broadcast nationally.

Ms. Orchard?s extensive chamber music discography, available on the Arabesque label includes an all Schnittke CD with Gary Graffman, which has been praised by San Francisco Chronicle, Stereophile and Gramaphone, as well as the quartets of Alexander Borodin, Arnold Schoenberg, Alexander Zemlinsky, Robert Schumann, Amy Beach, and composer/satirist Peter Schickele. Her latest two CD's with the Pittsburgh Piano Trio have garnered enthusiastic response and include the world premiere of the early Frank Bridge Sonata for violin and piano with pianist Igor Kraevsky, and a varied collection of shorter works by Piazzolla, Shostakovich, and Scott Joplin entitled, "Encore! Encore!".

As part of the Pittsburgh Piano Trio, Orchard toured the Ukraine last December and performed at New York's Carnegie Hall in March, 2005. The trio is currently championing a triple concerto by romantic composer Paul Juon and is scheduled to perform this neglected masterpiece with orchestras in Canada and Russia in the 2006 season.

Ms. Orchard is a graduate of the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Robert Mann and Szymon Goldberg. Currently residing in Pittsburgh, Ms Orchard is a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and is on faculty at the City Music Center at Duquesne University.