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Biographies
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The RAUTENBERG-SAATHOFF DUO performs a broad range of classical music reflecting its members' eclectic interests, most often playing runouts in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. The duo has received return invitations to every venue it has performed in, playing works by composers from Beethoven and Brahms to Messiaen and Bolcom. Prominent violinist Lisa Rautenberg and collaborative pianist Gretchen Saathoff formed the Rautenberg-Saathoff Duo in New York in 1995.
LISA RAUTENBERG performs as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist. She gave her New York City solo debut with Concert Royale at the Mostly Mozart Festival in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. She performed her New York City recital debut in Merkin Hall playing virtuoso masters for the baroque violin. The recital included the first modern-day performances on original instruments of works by Paganini. Ms. Rautenberg can be heard on over 100 recordings on labels such as SONY Classical, Virgin Classics, Newport Classics, MCA, Decca, Nonesuch, Telarc, Deutsche Grammophone, and Champignon International. She has performed concertos in many of the major halls in America and Europe including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Kennedy Center, Orchestra Hall Chicago, Boston's Symphony Hall, Hercules Hall, Concertgebow, BBC London, and at the Proms Festival. Ms. Rautenberg holds a degree in violin performance with distinction from Indiana University, where she was a student of Josef Gingold. She also studied early violin techniques with Marilyn McDonald. Ms. Rautenberg is the Associate Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.
GRETCHEN SAATHOFF is a soloist as well as a collaborative pianist who performs with singers and instrumentalists. She twice toured the nation as pianist with the Norman Luboff Choir. A longtime New Yorker, Ms. Saathoff relocated to Amherst, MA, in 1999. Ms. Saathoff studied chamber music with the eminent violinist Joseph Fuchs. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance at the University of Massachusetts, and a Master of Music degree with distinction at Westminster Choir College, where she studied accompanying and coaching with Martin Katz and graduated first in her class. Her recent solo concerts include those in New York, Princeton, NJ, Amherst, Deerfield and Greenfield, MA, and Burlington, IA.
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