Jennifer Gilbert enjoys an international career as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician.  A graduate of the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music and Harvard University, where she studied English and American literature, Jennifer Gilbert is currently concertmaster of the Orchestre National de Lyon.

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Be sure to hear all of Jennifer Gilbert’s 2012 Festival performances listed below

Saturday, August 4, 2012, 5:00 PM at St. Francis Auditorium
Bach Plus

Sunday, August 5, 2012, 6:00 PM at St. Francis Auditorium
Mozart / Schoenberg / Mendelssohn

Monday, August 6, 2012, 6:00 PM at St. Francis Auditorium
Mozart / Schoenberg / Mendelssohn

Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 6:00 PM at St. Francis Auditorium
Strauss / Kreisler / Schoenberg

Thursday, August 9, 2012, 12:00 PM at St. Francis Auditorium
Stravinsky / Prokofiev / Dvořák

Thursday, August 9, 2012, 6:00 PM at St. Francis Auditorium
Strauss / Kreisler / Schoenberg

Saturday, August 11, 2012, 5:00 PM at The Lensic Performing Arts Center
Bach Plus

Jennifer Gilbert enjoys an international career as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician.  A graduate of the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music and Harvard University, where she studied English and American literature, Jennifer Gilbert is currently concertmaster of the Orchestre National de Lyon.

Jennifer Gilbert has appeared as soloist with the Kyoto Symphony, Tokyo Symphony and Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestras and the Orchestre National de Lyon.  She has also toured with the Ensemble of the Academy of Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields.

Jennifer Gilbert participates in chamber music festivals around the world, including the Marlboro Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Sangat Festival in India, MMCJ and Saito Kinen.  She has collaborated with artists such as Leon Fleisher, Emanuel Ax, Peter Serkin, Helene Grimaud, Richard Stoltzman, Midori, Jaime Laredo and members of the Guarneri, Orion and Juilliard string quartets.

Dedicated to performing the works of American composers, Ms. Gilbert has recorded John Harbison’s Due Libri, released by Archetype Records, and Earl Kim’s Three Poems in French for New World Records.

Ms. Gilbert has been guest concertmaster of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia and the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra.  She has toured Europe and the United States with the Saito Kinen Orchestra and conductor Seiji Ozawa.

Jennifer Gilbert returns to Japan regularly to play recitals and chamber music.  She is a director of MMCJ, a summer music program for international students in Chiba, Japan.

Jennifer Gilbert plays a 1781 Guadagnini.