Award-winning violinist Dawn Gingrich has appeared throughout
the world as a soloist and chamber musician. She has given
frequent recitals at a variety of venues in New York, Chicago,
Boston, and Baltimore, and has made solo appearances at the New
England Conservatory, Longy School of Music, the Juilliard
School, and Northwestern University. A prizewinner at the Eastern
Connecticut Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition and at
the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, Ms. Gingrich
has participated in music festivals all over the world, including
Music Academy of the West, the Thüringische Sommer-Akademie
in Böhlen, Germany, the International Musical Arts Institute, and
Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific, where she served as
concertmaster for the inaugural season.
Dawn began studying
violin at the age of three with Barbara Bredemeier, and has since
worked with Eric Rosenblith of the New England Conservatory,
Zvi Zeitlin of the Eastman School of Music, and Laura Chen of the
Philadelphia Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 2008,
Dawn and her father Daniel Gingrich, associate principal hornist of
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, released their first collaborative
CD, entitled “Time Beyond Me”, which features a performance of
the Brahms Horn Trio with Heng-Jin Park, pianist and founding
member of the Boston Trio. She has appeared as a soloist at
Chicago’s Beethoven Festival and Evanston’s Bach Week Festival,
and has performed live on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight, ABC 7
“Chicago News This Morning,” and A&E’s “The Competition”.
She plays regularly with the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, Rhode
Island Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, Binghamton
Philharmonic, Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra, and the Lake Forest
Symphony.
She is currently on faculty at Suzuki Music School of
Barrington and has previously served on faculty at Brooklyn
Conservatory. Dawn has spearheaded and performed numerous
benefit concerts for charitable organizations including the Cotlands
Hospice for children living with HIV in South Africa, Jitokeze:
Kenyan Women Building Sustainable Communities, and
fundraisers for Congolese refugees living in the United States.