2011 

• Featured Violinist for ICE, Chicago Museum of Art, Music of Nathan Davis

• Performances with Anthony Marwood, Nicholas Mann, Bonnie Hampton and Seth Knopp at the Yellow Barn Music Festival

• ICE, featured violinist; Du Yun: Angel’s Bone, The Mann Center for Performing Arts Main Stage, Philadelphia, PA

• Astral Artists, featured violinist concert series: "Baroque Plus Concert," Philadelphia

• Solo recital, Astral Artists Community Classics, Philadelphia, Repertoire: Brahms Sonata in G Major, Bach Ciaccona, George Enescu, Airs in Romanian Folk Style, Jennifer Curtis: Cave Paintings for Violin Solo

• Carnegie Hall Presents; Ikarus Chamber Players,  Brooklyn, NY

• ICE at Iceland Airwaves Festival at Reykjavik Concert Hall, Iceland, String Quartet; Steve Reich, Different Trains

• Festival International de Musica Classica Contemporanea in Lima, Peru, featured violinist and composer, Repertoire: World premiere of Perfil de Sortilegio by Cesar Cano, dedicated to Jennifer Curtis, Ochoa Guevara: Huayno por violin solo, George Enescu: Airs in Romanian Folk Style, Jennifer Curtis: Death Valley, Improvisations for 2 violins, mandolin and voice.

• Solo recital University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Repertoire: Death Valley for violin and pre-recorded violin by Jennifer Curtis, J.S. Bach: Ciaccona, George Enescu: Airs in Romanian Folkstyle 

• Performances at the Yellow Barn Music Festival with Anthony Marwood, Tessa Lark, Nicholas Mann, Bonnie Hampton

• ICE at Chicago Museum of Art, featured violinist; Music of Xenakis, John Cage and Pauline Oliveros

• Solo recital in Minneapolis, Luthern MidEast Development, music of Brahms, Enescu and Curtis

• ICE at Le Poisson Rouge, New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, music of Nathan Davis and Dai Fujikora; featured violinist and mandolinist

• Tully Scope Festival; ICE, featured violinist

• ICE, featured violinist; Mario Davidovsky portrait, Miller Theater, Columbia University, New York

• Ikarus Chamber Players; Music and Literature at Tarisio Auction House, NYC

2010 

• ICE; featured violinist; Center Festival Varèse (R)evolution,  Alice Tully Hall

• Darmstadt Festival, ICE, featured violinist

• ICE, Roots and Return concert at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, ICE (artists in residence at MCA)

• ICE, Composer Portraits at Miller Theater in New York City.

• Brasov International Music Festival, Romania; featured soloist and chamber musician, performing in honor of George Enescu

• Barge Music, NYC, featured violinist with Enescu Chamber Players and Don Weilerstein

• Juilliard School, NYC, featured violinist with Enescu Chamber Players and Don Weilerstein

• Solo recital; Stradivarius House Concert, Bordeaux, France

• Música a Gosto Festival, Viana do Castelo, Portugal, featured soloist; violin and mandolin

• Music of George Enescu, Yale University, faculty recital, soloist and chamber musician

• ICE at Le Poisson Rouge, Music for Darmsadt, featured violinist

• Solo recitals, Astral Artists, Philadelphia

• Violin duo recital with Dave Bowlin, The Tank, NYC

• ICE with Matthius Pintscher; Le  Poisson Rouge, NYC

• Ikarus Chamber Players;University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

2009 

• Solo recital in Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall presented by Artists International Presentations, including Paul Desenne's Concerto for Violin and strings; Two Seasons, with George Stelluto, conductor

• Mark Morris Dance Group, Featured soloist for Lou Harrison’s Grand duo Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY         

• ICE, Brooklyn Academy of Music, collaboration with DJ Spooky 

• Festival International de Musica Classica Contemporanea in Lima, Peru, featured soloist and composer with Tres Americas Ensemble

• Tres Americas Ensemble, solo and chamber works in Lima and Iquitos, Peru

• Featured artist at Brooklyn Philharmonic's Nuevo Latino Festival, appearing as soloist and curator for an evening with Tres Americas Ensemble, Galapagos Art Space, NYC

•  Philadelphia Brahms Festival, Astral Artists, featured violinist

• Featured violinist Darius Milhaud Concert, Mills College; Stravinsky’s l’Histoire du Soldat   

• ICE, featured violinist composer portrait Xenakis, Miller Theater, Columbia University, NYC

• Mostly Mozart Festival, ICE, featured violinist

• ICE, featured violinist; Xenakis portrait, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

• Musica Nova Helsinki,  Finland; ICE, featured violinist

• ICE, Gardner Museum, Boston, featured violinist; composer portrait; Xenakis 

2008 

• Concerto performance with Symphony in C, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia: Ravel's Tzigane with Rossen Milanov, conductor

• Concerto performance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Memorial Hall, Modern Music of Latin America Series: Paul Desenne's Two Seasons, with Susan Klebanow, conductor

• Presented in Philadelphia by Astral Artists in Legends of the Violin, performing Bach's C Major Sonata, E Major Partita and Ysaÿe's Sonata No.1

• Philadelphia recital debut presented by Astral Artists

• Solo recital, Merkin Hall, Kaufman Center, New York City

• Performances with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Luminato Festival, Toronto

• New York Premiere, Enescu works for solo violin

• Chamber Music Recording for Claire Chase solo CD, Aliento

2007 

• Solo recital Philadelphia Academy of Music presented by Astral Artists

• Concerto performance of Bach Concerto for 2 Violins, Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Caracas, Venezuela

• Solo recital during ICEFEST in Chicago presented by ICE

• Featured soloist and chamber musician Musique de Chambre a Giverny, France

• Featured soloist, Mark Morris Dance Group, The Egg, Center for Performing Arts, Albany, NY

• Guest 1st violinist, Vega Quartet, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

• Chamber Music performances with members of the Juilliard String Quartet and the Mendelssohn Quartet, Yellow Barn Music Festival, MA and VT

• Appearances as first violinist with the Vega String Quartet at the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, FL

2006 

• Carnegie Hall debut recital at Weill Recital Hall presented by Artists International Presentations  

• Debut as soloist in Memorial Hall, UNC-CH performing Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Piano with pianist Jane Hawkins

• National tour performing Bartok's Fourth String Quartet and Schumann's Piano Quintet with the Mark Morris Dance Group              

• Quartet performance with Béla Quartet, Newman Concert Series, UNC-CH

• Chamber Music performances with members of the Juilliard String Quartet and the Mendelssohn Quartet, Yellow Barn Music Festival, MA and VT

2005 

• Featured soloist and chamber musician at the Ikholm Festival of Contemporary Music in Tashkent, Uzbekistan with the new music group, Continuum

• Chamber Music performances with members of the Juilliard String Quartet and the Mendelssohn Quartet, Yellow Barn Music Festival, MA and VT

• National tour performing Bartok's Fourth String Quartet and Schumann's Piano Quintet with the Mark Morris Dance Group  

2004 

• Debut as soloist in Alice Tully Hall, NYC: Performing Dutilleux's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, l'Arbre des Songes, with the Juilliard Orchestra and James Judd, conductor

• Residency with J Quartet,  Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, Italy: multiple performances including my original composition for Mandolin and String Trio

• Residency with J Quartet, UNC-CH Chamber Music Workshop: repertoire including my original composition for mandolin and string trio

• Participant in the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar with J Quartet

• Performances with J Quartet in Alice Tully Hall, New York

2003 

• Featured soloist, Lou Harrison's Concerto in Slendro for solo violin, percussion, celleste and tack pianos, FOCUS! FESTIVAL, New Juilliard Ensemble and Joel Sachs, conductor

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Non classical experience 

World Music, Folk, Improvisation, Latin American, multi instrumental, etc

Current: Solo improviser, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, percussion, vocals

Composer, Duo with Dexter Romweber; Collaborations with Pauchi Sasaki; Tres Americas Ensemble (founder/artistic director), a project dedicated to the traditional, folk/pop/sacred musical traditions of North, Central and South America; guest fiddler for Big Fat Gap Band, duo with Ella Bertram

2013 

• Concert Artist Guild presents Jennifer Curtis in a solo show of mostly improvisation at Barbès in Brooklyn, NY, with guest artists Tyshawn Sorey, drums,  Efraín Rozas, latin american percussion, Michael Caterisano Brazillian percussion and Gareth Flowers, Trumpet

• Guest solo violin/improviser and collaborator with DJ Spooky and Inyang Bassey (Moby)
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photography from the civil war multi-media presentation

• Collaborative duo with Dexter Romweber, guitarist/vocalist, inclduding arrangements of Dexter’s originals and a variety from Chopin to Stéphane Grappelli

• Bows for Beers, Monthly Chamber music series at local Carrboro brewery, Steel String

• Paperhand Puppet Intervention, Forest Theater Chapel Hill, country fiddle with Ella Bertram 

• Multiple appearances with Ella Bertram and her country band, Haw River Ballroom, The Arts Center’s Fair Trade music series, The Kraken, Local 506, Johnny’s, Steel String

• Collaboration with Andrew Marlen of Mandolin Orange

2012 

• Soloist and composer, Kapalabhati; mini concerto for violin, chamber orchestra and Cajón. Performances with The Knights Chamber Orchestra-US Tour, Red Nacional de Orquestas, Lima, Peru, Piedmont Youth Orchestra-Chapel Hill, NC, Music for Children-Chapel Hill, NC, UNC-CH Chamber Music players.

• Featured violinist, percussionist and composer, El Festival de Artes Escénicas de Lima, Peru. Festival finale, four performances of the multi-disciplinary production, MURU, la fuerza inevitable. Lima, Peru

• Featured violinist/percussionist with Pauchi Sasaki at Festival de Siete Mares, world music festival featuring Manu Chao, Lima, Peru

• Concierto Shamanico, music performances and healing ceremonies with Tito la Rosa, Andean Shaman and sound healer. Peruvian tour.

• Concierto Shamanico, music performances and healing ceremonies with Tito la Rosa, Andean Shaman and sound healer, Berkeley, Sonoma County, San Francisco, Marin and Lodi, California

• Violin solo/duo recitals; pre-recorded and live improvisations, Nationwide tour as Solo violinist, composer, folk musician, teacher, musical advocate for social justice. Master classes, private lessons, musical diplomacy and cultural exchange in Istanbul, Van, and Ahtamar Island, Turkey

• Music for Film; Collaboration with Lutheran MidEast Development, improvisation for social justice film, live on site in the Armenian Church (915-920) of Island Ahtamar, Van, Tukey

• Rockabilly and blues with Dexter Romweber, various venues in North Carolina, including Local 506, Pour House, UNC-CH and private homes.

• Rockabilly and Blues, Deep Set Quartet, various local venues North Carolina

• Fiddle, mandolin and vocals with old time folk band The Ayr Mountaineers at Shakori Hills Grass Roots Festival, Fair Trade Music series, Local 506, Haw River Ballroom, Carborro Farmers Market, The Kraken and other venues in North Carolina.

• Fair Trade Music Series, Carrboro Arts Center, Ayr Mountaineers

• Ayr Mountaineers, Paperhand Puppet Intervention, Forest Theater, Chapel Hill, NC

• Stradivarius House Concerts, duo with Dexter Romweber

• Collaborations with Laura Inserra and Samavesha, non-profit performing arts organization that unites art, nature and community

2011 

• Guest violinist, PRIZE, San Francisco-based rock band, Hotel Utah

• Encuentro Internacional de Curanderismo (International Shaman Conference), violinist and assistant to Tito la Rosa, Andean musical Shaman. Performances and ceremonies, Trujillo, Peru

• Musical Shamanic ceremonies with Tito la Rosa and Amelia Curandera, Pucallpa, Peru, Amazon region

• Latin-American Jazz performances in Lima, Peru

• Recording project with Tito La Rosa and Amelia Curandera, in collaboration with Ayni Projects and Munay Farm.

• Collaborations with Laura Inserra and Samavesha, non-profit performing arts organization that unites art, nature and community

• Solo show of original compositions and improvisations at Numi tea house, Oakland, CA, presented by Samavesha

• Violinist/composer in collaboration with Pauchi Sasaki and Integro Groupo de danza, Theatre Municipal, Lima, Peru

• Stradivarius House Concerts, duo with Dexter Romweber

• Albert Knobbs Sountrack release, NY and CA with Sindead O’Conner and Bryan Byrne

2010 and earlier 

• Peruvian tour with Tres Americas Project, teaching, performing recording, cultural exchange and collaborations with Paula Sasaki and Forest Concessions of the Peruvian Amazon, Lima, Iquitos, Amazon region, Peru

• Spoleto Festival, Italy, featured folk musician and composer

• Brooklyn Philharmonic presents Nuevo Latino festival, curator, performer/composer

• Original Mandolin concerto with Música a Gosto Festival, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

• Solo show, ICE at The Tank, original works for violin and mandolin

• Performances of Lou Harrison’s Philemon and Baukis for Solo violin with Gamelon. Mills College, UC Berkeley, Oregon Gamelon Festival

• Verbier Festival de Musique, featured folk musician/composer and performer

• Percussionist, Strong Current Dance Company, San Francisco, CA

• Musical Collaborations as composer/mandolinist/percussionist with Nicholas Kendall

• Nigerian, Angolian, Afro-Cuban and other West African and Latin American percussion ensembles

• Electric guitar player and arranger, KIMBUTE, Tanzanian band

• Guest violinist with Mikey Mills and Steel, music from Trinidad
   

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Teaching and outreach 

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Lecturer of Violin

• Masterclasses: San Francisco Convservatory of Music, Cornell University, Oberlin Convservatory of Music, Duke University Music Department

• Lecture performances at NC State Universtiy, The Whole Artist, an approach to a career in classical music that integrates music performances with diplmacy and the preservation of global musical traditions

• Mastercalsses and private lessons throughtout Turkey: Başak Kültür ve Sanat Vakfı  Başak Culture and Arts Foundation, Ataşehir, İstanbul 

• Yüzüncü Yıl Universitesi, Van Kadın Sanatçılar Derneği  Van Women Artist's Association

• Piedmont Youth Orchestra and Music for Children. Chamber music coaching and private lessons, Chapel Hill, NC

• Faculty UNC Chamber Music Workshop, coaching, lecturing and recital, 2004-2014

• Part time private Studio Chapel Hill, NC

• Faculty, SCORE, music camp at UNC-CH

• Violin practice coach, Berkeley, CA

• Conservatorio Nacional de Música, Lima, Peru; Masterclasses and coaching

• Masterclasses and private lessons, Istanbul and Van, Turkey

• Guest lecturer/performer Emerson Waldorf School, North Carolina

• International Contemporary Ensemble Residencies and teaching at Columbia University, New York University, Northwestern University, and Columbia College in Chicago.

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chamber Music Workshop Faculty 

• Part time private Studio, Chapel Hill, NC

• Violin practice coach, Berkeley, CA

• Conservatorio Nacional de Música, Lima, Peru; Masterclasses and coaching

• Masterclass, UNC-CH

• International Contemporary Ensemble Residencies and teaching at Columbia University, New York University, Northwestern University, and Columbia College in Chicago.

• Astral Artists Classroom Classics Educational Outreach Program, Folk Music Woven into Classical Music. 

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chamber Music Workshop Faculty 

• Resident artist/faculty with Cultures in Harmony for the Youth Orchestra Program of Mexico City. Rehearsal coach, lessons, masterclasses, concerts, cultural dialogue forums, workshops and recitals. Repertoire including my original composition for mandolin and strings.

• International Contemporary Ensemble Residency: International Festival of Contemporary Music in Michoacan, Mexico: performances and workshops with young composers at El Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, Mexico

• International Contemporary Ensemble Residency: New York University, Columbia College (Chicago) Performances and coachings with composition students

Orchestral experience

2013 

• East Coast Chamber Orchestra Tour: Princeton University, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society at the Kimmel Center, Krannert Center for Performing Arts, Champaign-Urbana and International Violin Competition of Indianapolis presents at the Palladium

• Guest Concertmaster and arranger with East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Henry Purcell Fantasias for 4 voices

• Assistant concertmaster, NOVUS NY, Trinity Church Concerts at One

• Martha Graham Dance Company: Concertmaster, Appalachian Spring, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

• Guest Concertmaster, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, program including Tchaikovsky serenade for strings and Webern 5 pieces for orchestra

• Violin section (substitute), North Carolina Symphony

• Concertmaster, Steven Anderson’s Isaiah at UNC-CH

• ECO concertmaster, New Music Ensemble at UC Berkeley

• Concertmaster Production of Amahl: One act opera by Gian Carlo Menotti, Durham, NC

• The Knights Chamber Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman at Ravinia Festival, Highland Park IL, Naumberg Bandshell in Central Park

• The Knights Chamber Orchestra: US Tour, Assistant Principal Second Violin

• Ensemble Paralléle, assistant concertmaster

• ICE, Debut recording of Son of Chamber Symphony by John Adams, conducted by John Adams, Nonesuch Records

• A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra: Concertmaster/featured soloist, Jordan Hall, Gardner Museum (artists in residence), Boston, Merkin Hall, NYC

• Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Substitute Associate Concertmaster and Assistant Principal Second Violin

• Orchestra of St. Lukes, Substitute Violin, Carnegie Hall

• Concertmaster, Música a Gosto Festival, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

• Mostly Mozart Festival, ICE, Conducted by John Adams

• Music of Aaron Jay Kernis, Reopening of Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center, NYC. Assistant Concertmaster. Conductor, Aaron Jay Kernis

• Performances with Mark Morris Dance Group, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Principal Second Violin

• Performances with Mark Morris Dance Group, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Principal Second Violin

• The Juilliard Orchestra: Assistant Concertmaster, European Tour with James DePriest, Conductor

• The Juilliard Orchestra: Concertmaster, Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center with Jahja Ling, Conductor

• Featured by Juilliard as Concertmaster and Mandolinist for Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and La Rossignol

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Recordings 

Upcoming:

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Muisc of George Enescu

New Focus 2016

Jennifer Curtis Original Compositions

live at the Haw River Ballroom

2016

Jennifer Curtis and Tyshawn Sorey

Music for violin and percussion 

New Focus  2016

Appears on:

Routes of Evanescence, American Women Composers

Ariana Kim, violin 

Jennifer Curtis, Mandolin/composer

2015

Aliento

Jason Eckardt: 16

New Focus Recordings, 2010

with ICE, flutist Claire Chase

Son of Chamber Symphony

John Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony

Nonesuch Records, 2012

with ICE, conductor John Adams

Undersong

Jason Eckardt: Undersong, Aperture

Mode Records, 2011

with ICE, conductor Steve Schick, cellist Fred Sherry

Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi (DVD/BluRay)

Vijay Iyer and Prashant Bhargava: Radhe Radhe

ECM

with ICE

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Ella Bertram, Shiny and Brite

Fiddle, arrangments and production by Jennifer Curtis

2015

Tristan Murail: Winter Fragments 

Aeon 2007

with Argento Chamber Ensemble

JULIAN WACHNER: SYMPHONY NO. 1

Musica Omnia/Naxos International, 2014

with Novus New York

Anders Eliasson

Neos Music of Germany, 2009

with ARCOS chamber orchestra 

Copland and Aldridge Clarinet Concertos

Naxos American Classics 2010

with A far cry chamber orchestra 

Isaiah

Mormon Artist Group, CD and DVD, 2014

with Stephen Anderson

Popular and Traditional Music

Espacios y canales

CONCESIONES FORESTALES EN LA AMAZONÍA PERUANA 2010

Tres Americas Ensemble y Pauchi Sasaki

(violin/composition)

Soundtrack: The World Made Straight

violin improvisations and compositions

Myriad Pictures 2013, 2015

Scotland, Grace of the Wild

Capital Broadcasting Company 2013

with Bill Leslie

I am a river

Capital Broadcasting Company 2006

with Bill Leslie

Blueridge Reunion

Capital Broadcasting Company 2004

with Bill Leslie

Peaceful Journey: A Celebration of North Carolina

Greycliff 2008

with Bill Leslie

Asterisk:Four

The Optimist

QN5, inc. 2007

violin and string arrangements

On the Nature of Thingness

Nathan Davis: On the Nature of Thingness, Phyllis Chen: Glass Clouds, Chimers

recording complete, release anticipated Spring 2015

Starkland Records

with ICE, soprano Tony Arnold

Jennifer Curtis violin and mandolin

Rand Steiger and International Contemporary Ensemble

Curanderas y Canciones

Jennifer Curtis and Tito la Rosa

Shamanic Concierto

Ayni Projects Recordings

2016