Kate Dreyfuss

Hailed by Musical America for her “deliciously meaty” tone, violinist KATE DREYFUSS is an adventurous musician known for her “uncompromising commitment” and “fearless approach” (Cacophony Magazine) to performance.

A staunch advocate for the music of our time, Dreyfuss co-founded the violin-clarinet-percussion trio F-PLUS, is a core member of Contemporaneous, and has been a guest violinist with ETHEL and Hub New Music. She has premiered over 70 new solo and chamber music works, and has collaborated closely with such composers as Matthew Barnson, Shih-Hui Chen, Andreia Pinto Correia, Donnacha Dennehy, Perry Goldstein, John Harbison, Takuma Itoh, Missy Mazzoli, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Dan Trueman, and Julia Wolfe.

Dreyfuss has shared the stage with members of the Emerson String Quartet, Colin Carr, and the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and has held fellowships at the Bowdoin International Music Festival and the Bang on a Can Summer Festival. She has also appeared at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival with F-PLUS, where the trio was mentored by the Emerson String Quartet and Eighth Blackbird as part of the festival’s Shouse Institute for young, emerging chamber ensembles. In 2019, she performed all four of Julia Wolfe's string quartets with ETHEL at The Jewish Museum in New York City.

Dreyfuss holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University, where she studied with Jennifer Frautschi and Arnaud Sussmann. She previously completed her Master of Music degree at Stony Brook, and earned her Bachelor of Arts in French literature, with honors, at Princeton University. Previous teachers include Elizabeth Chang and Louise Behrend at the Pre-College division of The Juilliard School, and Ryan Meehan of the Calidore String Quartet.