bREE FOTHERINGHAM, VIOLIN

American violinist Bree Fotheringham is a dedicated artist and advocate for classical music in the 21st century. A passionate collaborator, she has shared the stage with renowned artists such as Noah Bendix-Balgley, Andrew Marriner, and Clive Greensmith, and has appeared as a guest artist with BalletNext, the musician-led ensemble Palaver Strings, and the Grammy-nominated conductorless chamber orchestra A Far Cry. As a soloist, she has garnered top prizes in numerous competitions including the Whittier Young Artist Competition and the New England Conservatory’s Bales Violin Competition, where she was granted a loan of an 1803 Josef Guadagnini violin. She has appeared as a soloist with the Utah Symphony, the Colburn Zipper Orchestra, the American Fork Symphony, and the Whittier Regional Orchestra, among others. Fotheringham has attended festivals including Colorado College Summer Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival, where she was one of two violinists to receive the orchestral leadership fellowship and serve as concertmaster of the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Fotheringham has been a recipient of several community-focused fellowships, including the New England Conservatory’s Community Performances and Partnerships Program’s Ensemble and Community Fellowships, and the Musician Citizen Fellowship at the American Youth Symphony. She has held residencies at the Virginia Arts Festival, performing for hundreds of K-12 students in the Virginia Beach area, and at Street Symphony, performing concerts for those directly affected by homelessness and incarceration in Los Angeles.
A Utah native, Fotheringham studied violin with Eugene Watanabe, founder and artistic director of the Gifted Music School. She is a graduate of the Colburn Conservatory of Music where she studied with Robert Lipsett, the Jascha Heifetz Distinguished Violin Chair, and the New England Conservatory where she studied with Ayano Ninomiya.