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...it is interesting to speculate on what the future holds for this promising violinist...She can already teach a thing or two about poetic statement to many of the so-called professional fiddlers on the current circuit. The New York Sun
New York City

The Adagio of Brahms's D Minor Sonata, Op. 108, was gorgeous stuff in her hands, yet she was able to find the right balance of incisive power and classical proportion in the score's more heated rhetoric. And in Ravel's Sonata in G, the swoony faux-blues and tricky pizzicatos were dispatched with technique to spare. The Washington Post
Washington D.C.

...sweet, throbbing vibrato responded to tunefulness, especially in duet exchanges [with] Joanna Frankel's violin... The New York Times
New York City

[The Brahms A major sonata] is the domain of Ms. Frankel. She has a palpable singing tone and phrases with a good deal of aesthetic intelligence... [she] intoned it lovingly, in an unabashedly Romantic manner. This was definitely the highlight of the day. New York Sun
New York City

...Frankel then came into [her] own with the playing of the middle and final movements of Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor. In the two contrasting movements Miss Frankel revealed her awesome skill. The first was lyric and legato while the finale was gratifyingly fiery. The Sentinel Ledger
New Jersey

...the soloist continued with the sonata opus 83 by Edward Elgar, a late romantic work, played with a heartfelt, sensitive interpretation. Contact
Bergen-Egmond-Schoorl
The Netherlands

Chausson has his own vibrant brand of lush lyricism...Joanna Frankel gave a powerhouse performance of the piece... Post and Courier
Charleston, SC

Her pedigree is top notch. Aspen Times Weekly
Aspen, CO

Violinist Joanna Frankel...played a wild and challenging work by young Israeli composer Avner Dorman...At one point, Frankel was required to control the melody with the tuning peg of her violin. Somehow, she managed to maintain excellent intonation and beautiful phrasing. Post and Courier
Charleston, SC

From the first notes of Mozart's E Minor Sonata, K. 304, at the Phillips Collection on Sunday, Joanna Marie Frankel proved herself an uncommonly fine young violinist. Her darkly burnished, consistently rounded tone went right to the melancholy heart of the piece. Washington Post
Washington. D.C.