Erin Keefe

Violinist Erin Keefe is the Concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra as well asan Artist Member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Winner of the 2006 Avery Fisher Career Grant and 2009 Pro Musicis Award, she was also the Grand Prize winner in the Valsesia Musica, Torun, Schadt and Corpus Christi international violin competitions, and was the Silver Medalist in the Carl Nielsen, Sendai, and Gyeongnam competitions.

Ms. Keefe has appeared as soloist in recent seasons with orchestras such as the Minnesota Orchestra, New Mexico Symphony, New York City Ballet Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic and the Gottingen Symphony and has given recitals throughout the United States, Austria, Italy, Germany, Korea, Poland, Finland, Japan and Denmark.

Ms. Keefe has been an Artist Member of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2010 after previously being amember of The Chamber Music Society Two program from 2006-2009. She has been featured on“Live from Lincoln Center” three times with the Society, performing works by Brahms, Schoenberg, Bach and Corelli. Ms. Keefe has collaborated with artists such asthe Emerson String Quartet, Edgar Meyer, Gary Hoffman, David Finckel, Wu Han, Richard Goode, Roberto and Andrés Díaz,

Menahem Pressler and Leon Fleisher, and she has recorded for Naxos, the CMS Studio Recordings label and Deutsche Grammophon. She has made festival appearances with Music@Menlo, the Marlboro Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, Ravinia, and the Seattle, OK Mozart, Mimir, Bravo! and Bridgehampton chamber music festivals and performs regularly with the Brooklyn and Boston Chamber Music Societies.