Cynthia Frievogel

Violin

Cynthia Miller Freivogel is the leader and concertmaster of the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado and of the ARTEK chamber orchestra (New York)and Combattimento (the Netherlands) where she is also co-artistic director.

She has enjoyed collaborating both with visual artists and dancers, working to create new experiences around early music for audiences. She performed with Zonzo Compagnie (Belgium) in the multimedia production 3ach for young audiences and their families, developed stories around the solo violin partitas and sonatas of Bach with Broken Box Mime Theater and led the Baroque Chamber Orchestra newly choreographed works of by Garrett Ammon and Sarah Tallman of Wonderbound, blending contemporary ballet with early music.

As a solo artist, she is known on YouTube as the Vivaldi “Winter” soloist with Voices of Music. She also has been heard playing Beethoven Triple Concert with Philharmonia Baroque, Biber at the Berkeley Early Music Festival, and the Vilsmayr Partitas at the Utrecht Fabulous Fringe. Ms Freivogel has been featured playing solo Bach at the Seizoen Oude Muziek Bach Days, at Bach-Sommer Arnstadt and Rockport Chamber Music Festival (Maine).

She is a frequent guest leader and concertmaster for groups all over the world, including Handel and Haydn Society (Boston), Concerto Köln, Concerto d'Amsterdam, Trupe Barocca (Brazil), Joshua Rifkin's Bach Ensemble at the Stockholm and Antwerp Early Music Festivals, as well as in the Hague with Collegium Musicum den Haag and Voices of Music.

Ms. Freivogel has played with chamber orchestras from the west coast to the east coast and now in Europe, including with Vox Luminis’ orchestra, Holland Baroque Society, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Apollo's Fire, Portland Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society, and Boston Early Music Festival Opera. While living in California, she was a tenured member of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.

Before completely dedicating herself to early music, Ms Freivogel played in many symphony orchestras including State Orchestra of São Paulo in Brazil, New World Symphony (Miami), Colorado Music Festival Orchestra in Boulder, as well as at Tanglewood, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, American Russian Young Artist’s Orchestra.

Ms. Freivogel received a BA in musicology at Yale University and an MM in violin performance at the San Francisco Conservatory. She studied principally with Camilla Wicks and Marylou Speaker Churchill, and is a dedicated and certified Suzuki teacher. She lives in Amsterdam with her husband Ben, a theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam, and son Eliot.