Jennifer Morsches enjoys an international career as a versatile cellist, acclaimed for playing with “intelligence and pathos” (The Strad) and a “fine mixture of elegance and gutsiness.” (Gramophone) Currently, Jennifer is Co-Artistic Director of Sarasa Ensemble (Cambridge, MA), highly acknowledged for its dual mission of presenting high-caliber public concerts and facilitating musical expression with incarcerated teens in detention centers throughout the greater Boston area. Especially inclined towards historical performance, Jennifer is a core member of Florilegium, with whom she has toured and recorded extensively around the globe since 1997. With the Richter Ensemble, she has recorded string quartets by the Second Viennese School, Bach, and Schubert on gut strings for Passacaille Records to great acclaim. Jennifer also performs regularly with Emmanuel Music, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Teatro Nuovo, among others. A long-time member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Les Siècles, and l’Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Jennifer learned and performed regularly with eminent artists such as Sir Simon Rattle, Sir András Schiff, Vladimir Jurowski, Sir Roger Norrington, Dame Emma Kirkby, Sir Michael Chance, Philippe Herreweghe, and Frans Brüggen. Jennifer graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, First Group Scholar from Smith College with degrees in Music History and German Literature, and was awarded the Ernst Wallfisch Prize in Music. She received her Master’s and Doctorate in Cello Performance as a scholarship student of Timothy Eddy at the Mannes College of Music and SUNY at Stony Brook in New York.
Summer Chamber Music Workshop Participants
“I learned how to listen, how to be helpful, and how to be accepting at Apple Hill.”
“I liked the opportunity to play chamber music with talented musicians and excellent coaches in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.”
