Historical
Piano Concerts Series
About
the Musicians
Jerilyn Jorgensen
Jerilyn Jorgensen
is a member of the performance faculty of Colorado College and has been
adjunct faculty in violin and chamber music at the Lamont School of
Music of the University of Denver. She is currently serving as Visiting
Assistant Professor of Violin at the Crane School of Music, SUNY
Potsdam. From 1980-2004 she was first violinist of the Da Vinci
Quartet, and as a member of that ensemble she has performed throughout
the United States, been a prizewinner in the Shostakovich International
String Quartet Competition and finalist in the Naumburg Chamber Music
Competition, and appeared on PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Her
recordings of string chamber music by Arthur Foote and Charles Martin
Loeffler appear on the Naxos label. Her performances with the
quartet have been praised as “…abundant in feeling and fire” (Milwaukee
Journal), “taut, confident playing, brimming with thrust and color”
(Los Angeles Times), and as exhibiting “ease, authority, and
thoroughgoing excellence” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Concerts
from 2016-2018 included the complete Beethoven Sonatas in Colorado
Springs and Denver with pianist Cullan Bryant, as well as appearances
in New Mexico, Potsdam, NY, Boston, and elsewhere in Colorado. As a
performer of historically informed concerts on original instruments,
she has appeared with Mr. Bryant at the Frederick Collection of
Historical Pianos in Ashburnham, MA, the National Music Museum in
Vermillion, South Dakota, and the Loring-Greenough House in
Boston. She and Mr. Bryant are currently at work recording
the complete Beethoven sonatas on period instruments at the Frederick
Collection, and have been invited to present a concert at the Historic
Keyboard Society of North America 2018 Conference in May.
Ms.
Jorgensen holds bachelor and master of music degrees from the Eastman
School of Music and the Juilliard School. Her modern violin is by
Sanctus Serafin from 1728, and her classically set-up instrument is
by Viennese maker Antonius Carolus Leeb, from 1797. For
classical-period concerts she has use of an anonymous English bow from
1780 on generous loan from Darnton and Hersh Fine Violins, Chicago.
We welcome Jerilyn Jorgensen to her fourth concert on our series.
