Rhonda Frascotti, violin

RHONDA FRASCOTTI was born and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she studied violin, music theory, music history, solfeģe and chamber music with Charles Meacham of the San Francisco Symphony.  At sixteen she appeared as soloist with the Santa Cruz Symphony in Beethoven’s Two Romances for Violin and Orchestra, and from that experience, determined that the violin would be her life. 

As a full scholarship student at The Eastman School of Music, Rhonda studied with the formidable Zvi Zeitlin, was awarded the use of Eastman’s beautiful Guadagnini violin for her concerto engagements, performed professionally with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and earned a Bachelor of Music degree.  She received chamber music training from Gabor Reijto at the Music Academy of the West, from Josef Gingold and Sasha Schneider at the Cleveland Chamber Music Seminar, and from Joseph Fuchs at The Orono Chamber Music School.  Her graduate studies were with Franco Gulli, James Buswell and Gregory Fulkerson at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she earned a Master of Music degree. 

Rhonda has taught as Associate Instructor of Violin at Indiana University, and Adjunct Lecturer in Violin at Denison University.  As the violinist of the Trio-in-Residence at the venerable Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulpher Springs, WV, she performed for national and international dignitaries and celebrities on a routine basis.  Later she was selected to join the violin section of the newly-burgeoning Columbus Symphony Orchestra.  Today Rhonda is Acting Principal Second Violin of the CSO.  She appears regularly throughout Ohio and California as a soloist and chamber music player.

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