Jennifer Roig-Francoli
Violin, Alexander Technique

Jennifer Roig-Francoli has performed extensively both on the modern and baroque violins. On the modern violin, Roig-Francoli has appeared as featured soloist with orchestras such as the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Berlin Symphony, the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. Among the awards she has received are the TIME Magazine Collegiate Achievement Award, the Skene Award of Aberdeen, Scotland, the Pittsburgh Y Music Society's Passamaneck Award, and the national first prizes of both the College and High School divisions of the Music Teachers National Association Competition.

With a great deal of orchestral background, Roig-Francoli has been the Assistant Concertmaster of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Concertmaster of the Illinois Chamber Symphony, and Concertmaster of the New Philharmonic Orchestra (Chicago). She was also a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and Concertmaster of orchestras at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Indiana University.

On the baroque violin, Roig-Francoli is currently Associate Concertmaster of Apollo's Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra. She was a founding member of the Chicago Baroque Ensemble, and has performed and recorded with many period instrument ensembles, including the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, Chatham Baroque, and Joshua Rifkin and Stanley Ritchie in Milan. She is currently the violinist for Fioritura, a chamber music ensemble which has recently recorded a CD of Vivaldi and Telemann on the Centaur label.

A graduate of Indiana University, Roig-Francoli was a student of Josef Gingold and Stanley Ritchie. Other teachers included David Cerone at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Nathan Milstein in Switzerland, and Viktor Libermann in Holland. Roig-Francoli enjoys teaching the violin, and is also a certified teacher of the F. M. Alexander Technique. The Alexander Technique is a method for increasing joy and efficiency in everyday movement through awareness and change of mind-body habits, thus enhancing general well-being and the performance of specific skills, such as playing an instrument. See her website: http://www.BalanceandHarmonyAT.com

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