Heidi Braun-Hill

violin

The career of violinist Heidi Braun-Hill has led her to perform in many of the world’s most illustrious concert halls, including Symphony Hall in Boston, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, the Cité de la Music in Paris, and the Barbican Centre in London. She has made guest appearances as the concertmaster of the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, Chamber Orchestra of Boston, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, among others, and has made recordings for Arsis and Nonesuch.

Recently, she gave the world premiere of Martin Boykan’s Second Piano Trio, with cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer and pianist Byron Schenkman. She also performed in Peter Sellars’s production of Bach Cantatas BWV 82 and 199 with Lorraine Hunt Leiberson in the U.S. and Europe.

Locally, Ms. Braun-Hill has been featured as a guest artist with Emmanuel Music’s chamber music series, the Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Winsor Music, and at the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival. She has been a soloist in the renowned Bach Cantata series presented by Emmanuel Music since 1999, having performed over 150 cantatas.

Her recent engagements include collaborations with baritone David Kravitz, mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal, pianist Judith Gordon, and members of the Lydian String Quartet.

Ms. Braun-Hill is a graduate of Boston University, where she studied with Peter Zazofsky of the Muir String Quartet. Her other teachers have included Yuri Mazurkevich, Kevork Mardirossian and Routa Kroumovitch.

She is currently on the music faculty at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. Ms. Braun-Hill lives in Boston with her husband and their young daughter.

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