Ensemble 212 - Musicians

Praised for her “awesome skill” and for attaining “the power of a much older violinist,” (New Jersey’s Sentinel-Ledger) violinist Joanna Marie Frankel has been a soloist with the Ambler Symphony, the Olney Symphony, the Academy Chamber Society, the Rose Tree Pops, the Abington Presbyterian Church Orchestra, the Temple University Community Orchestra, and The Ocean City Pops. She has performed as a recitalist in Philadelphia, Fort Washington, New York City, Chattanooga, TN, Charleston, SC, and The Netherlands. Ms. Frankel has won top prizes in concerto competitions associated with The Ambler Symphony, The Pottstown Symphony, and The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Mann Music Center. She has also won honorable mention at The California International Young Artists’ Violin Competition and has been a featured performer on 90.5 WSMC Classical Radio of Collegedale, Tennessee. Ms. Frankel is currently a master’s degree candidate at The Juilliard School, studying the violin and the viola. She will perform her Carnegie Hall recital debut in January, 2007.