Claire Jolivet, violin

Claire Jolivet has performed extensively in North America and Europe as a chamber musician, recitalist and soloist, on both modern and baroque violin. She joined The Four Nations Ensemble in 1999. In addition to her work with Four Nations, Ms. Jolivet maintains a busy free-lance career playing regularly with orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the Northeast, including such original-instrument ensembles as the Smithsonian Chamber Players, Concert Royal, The Publick Musick, the Violins of Lafayette, Sarasa, Lyceum, BachWorks and Ars Antiqua. On modern violin, she performs regularly with the Stamford Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Lukes, Eos Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, Ms. Jolivet has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Joseph Kalichstein, Paula Robison and Kathleen Battle. She was the founder and Artistic Director of the Crested Butte Chamber Music Festival in Colorado, an organization she steered for over 10 years. Ms. Jolivet has appeared as violin soloist with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and with the Bach Aria Festival Orchestra in New York.

Ms. Jolivet has been a participant in numerous summer music festivals, including the Boston Early Music Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival (England), the Bach Aria Festival, the Chautauqua Institute, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas (New Haven, CT), the Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival, the Redwoods Festival (CA), the Aspen Music Festival, the International Musicians Seminar in Cornwall, England and the Madeira Bach Festival in Portugal. She began her violin studies in England with Pamela Spofforth and is a graduate of the Juilliard School where she studied with Dorothy DeLay. She has recorded on the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi and ASV - Gaudeamus labels.