Jennifer Culp
jennculp@aol.com.
Jennifer Culp has been an active chamber musician for the past 25 years. She was a member of the Kronos Quartet for seven years from 1998, during which time her busy international career included appearances at Sydney Opera House, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, London's Barbican Centre, Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and WOMAD Festival in New Zealand. The quartet won many international and national awards including Musical America's 2003 "Musicians of the Year" and a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance of Berg's Lyric Suite in 2004. Ms. Culp has collaborated with artists such as Zakir Hussein, Dawn Upshaw, Tom Waits, Sandor Vegh, Asha Bhosle and Irina Schnittke, and is currently a member of the Feinsmith Quartet. She received B.M. and M.M. degrees from the San Francisco and New England Conservatories, studying with Bonnie Hampton and Laurence Lesser. Ms. Culp was also cellist with the Dunsmuir Piano Quartet, Empryean Ensemble, Philadelphia String Quartet, San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has recorded numerous world premieres for Nonesuch, New Albion, CRI, Orion, New World and Sony.
Jean-Michel Fonteneau
jmfonteneau@sfcm.edu.
Jean-Michel Fonteneau is a founding member of the Ravel String Quartet, winner of two prizes at the Evian String Quartet Competition, and of the first French Grammy Award "Les Victoires de la Musique Classique". They toured extensively around the world and single-handedly created the first ever string quartet residency program in France. Highly sought after, Mr. Fonteneau performs frequently with such renowned artists as Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Kim Kashkashian, members of the Amadeus, Juilliard, Pro Arte, and Fine Arts Quartets. A passionate and devoted teacher, Jean-Michel Fonteneau served on the faculty of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon, France, until 1999, when he moved to the United States to join the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His students have won national and international competitions, appeared on "From the Top", and been honored as a Presidential Scholar. He appears regularly at summer festivals including the Yellow Barn Music Festival, Domaine Forget, Oberlin at Casalmaggiore, MYA, and ARIA. Mr. Fonteneau's recordings can be found with Musidisc-France and Albany Records.
