Rate My Professor Julie Rosenfeld

Julie Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of Violin in the School of Music at the University of Missouri, where she joined the faculty in fall 2014 and serves as a member of the Esterhazy Quartet, the ensemble-in-residence. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern California and a Master of Music degree from Yale University, and attended the Curtis Institute of Music, studying violin with Szymon Goldberg, Nathan Milstein, Robert Mann, and Yukiko Kamei. Prior to her current position, Rosenfeld was Assistant Professor of Violin In-Residence at the University of Connecticut from 2009 to 2013 and Visiting Professor of Music at Bard College from 2001 to 2009, during which time the Colorado String Quartet, with Rosenfeld as first violinist, was quartet-in-residence there from 2000 to 2009. For 32 years until 2014, she was first violinist of the Colorado String Quartet, which won the First Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1983. Rosenfeld directed the Soundfest Festival and Institute of String Quartets in Falmouth, Massachusetts, from 1991 to 2013, held residencies at Oberlin, Swarthmore, and Amherst Colleges, and taught violin and chamber music at the European Mozart Academy in Poland.

Rosenfeld has performed over 1200 concerts with the Colorado String Quartet across the United States, Canada, and more than 20 countries, including appearances at the Marlboro, Santa Fe, Newport, and La Jolla Chamber Music Festivals, and as guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Her recordings include the complete quartets of Beethoven, Brahms quartets, and Schubert and Mendelssohn quartets on Parnassus Records; French chamber music by Debussy and Ravel on BMG Classics in collaboration with André Previn; and New Music for Violin and Piano on Albany Records with Peter Miyamoto. She has championed works by composers such as Karel Husa, Joan Tower, Richard Wernick, Katherine Hoover, George Tsontakis, Laura Kaminsky, and Libby Larsen. At the University of Missouri, Rosenfeld has taught in the Honors College Humanities Sequence and Perceiving Musical Traditions and Styles, served as Faculty Fellow in 2024-25 developing a study abroad program to Vienna and Budapest, coordinated the Emerging Artists Competition, and given masterclasses at institutions including the Cleveland Institute of Music, Eastman School, and Yale University. She has served on juries for the Astral Foundation, Juilliard School, Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, Concert Artists Guild, Banff International String Quartet Competition, Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and Coleman Chamber Music Competition.