J Freivogel, violin

J Freivogel, first violinist of the Jasper String Quartet, grew up as the youngest brother/second violinist of his family's quartet. He attended Oberlin College and Conservatory for Bachelor's degrees in Violin Performance and Politics and, during his time there, won the Kauffman Chamber Music prize three times, the Presser Music Award, the Hurlbutt prize for most outstanding violinist, and the concerto competition. He received his Master's in String Quartet Performance from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music and is currently pursuing an Artist's Diploma at the Yale School of Music as graduate quartet-in-residence with the Jasper Quartet. His principal teachers include Marilyn McDonald, Sylvia Rosenberg, and Cho-Liang Lin for violin, and James Dunham, Norman Fischer, and the Tokyo String Quartet for chamber music. He is married to cellist Rachel Henderson Freivogel and they live in New Haven, CT.