Native New-Yorker Emma Frucht is a violin Master of Music degree student and Kovner Fellow at The Juilliard School, studying with Naoko Tanaka and Daniel Phillips. Ms. Frucht completed her undergraduate education at Harvard University, majoring in Art History, and studying violin privately with Lynn Chang. An avid orchestral and chamber musician, Ms. Frucht has served as concertmaster of numerous ensembles, including both the Harvard and Juilliard Orchestras. She relishes performing at chamber music festivals around the US, and has collaborated most recently with Natasha Brofsky, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Jerry Grossman, David Hardy, Michael Kannen, Seth Knopp, Katherine Murdock, Irina Muresanu, Daniel Phillips, Carol Rodland, Peter Stumpf, and Roger Tapping. She has been a fellowship student at the Aspen Music Festival, the Music Academy of the West, the Taos School of Music, and Yellow Barn. At these festivals, she has worked extensively with members of the Borromeo, Brentano, Miró, and Takács string quartets. Ms. Frucht has also been an artist at the Halcyon Music Festival, and the Kyoto International Music Festival.