Celebrated for “sincerity, intensity, and individual voice” (Philadelphia Inquirer) and “immaculate and discreetphrasing” (Strad Magazine), violinist Francesca dePasquale was the First Prize winner of the 2010 Irving M. KleinInternational String Competition, as well as recipient of the 2014-2016 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts and the 2015 Classical Recording Foundation Young Artist Award. She has been featured in Strings and The Strad magazine and on SiriusXM, WNYC, WQXR, WRTI, and WFMT radio.

Her 2025-2026 season includes appearances with the Aletheia Piano Trio, Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston, and Jigsaw Chamber Ensemble, as well as the US premiere of Edmund Finnis’ Shades Lengthen with conductor Timothy Weiss and the Oberlin Contemporary Ensemble. Recent performance highlights include Samuel Adams’ ChamberConcerto, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto, and the world premiere of Kenji Bunch’s Sketches for Mr. South, as well as appearances at Domaine Forget International Festival, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, ChamberFest Cleveland, Geneva Music Festival, Birch Festival, Collomore Concert Series, and ATX Chamber Music. In partnership with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Ms. dePasquale commissioned and premiered On the Blue Shore of Silence, a multimedia suite for violin, piano, electronics, and visual art by composers Gity Razaz, Gloria Justen, Sayo Kosugi, and artist Johanna Andruchovici.

Ms. dePasquale has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras including the Riverside Philharmonic, Gustav Mahler Orchestra, the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, Colburn Orchestra, Galesburg Symphony, Peninsula Symphony, and Santa Cruz Symphony. As a recitalist, she has collaborated with Meng-Chieh Liu, Natalie Zhu, John Root, and Reiko Uchida at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, National Sawdust, Rutgers University, the University of Pennsylvania, California Music Center, and the Perlman Music Program.

A vibrant chamber musician, Ms. dePasquale is a member of the Aletheia Piano Trio, with notable appearances at the Rose Studio and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, the Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center, the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, and Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, among many others. They toured China in 2018 and 2019 and were featured at the Busan Maru International Music Festival performing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Gustav Mahler Orchestra and conductor Wilson Ng.

She is also on the artist roster of the Manhattan Chamber Players and Chameleon Arts Ensemble and has performed withrenowned artists such as Adrian Brendel, Paul Coletti, Kim Kashkashian, Ronald Leonard, Robert Levin, Merry Peckham, Itzhak Perlman, Roger Tapping, Donald Weilerstein, and Helena Winkelman among many others, as well as the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, The Knights, and A Far Cry. She collaborated with dancers Isabella Boylston andJames Whiteside for the Fall for Dance Festival alongside composer Stefan Levin. Additionally, she has performed for the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth, Open Chamber Music at IMS Prussia Cove, Friends of Chamber Music (Reading, PA), An Appalachian Summer Festival, Chesapeake Chamber Music, Music at Bunker Hill, 23Arts Initiative, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Music in the Vineyards, and Olympic Music Festival.

Recent and upcoming recordings include the Aletheia Piano Trio’s debut album in spring 2026, Beethoven’s Op. 30 sonatas with pianist Peter Takács for New Leaf Records, and Gity Razaz’s Duo for violin and piano with Scott Cuellar for BIS Records.

Francesca dePasquale is a member of the violin faculty at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, having previously served on the violin faculty for the Juilliard School Pre-College Program. She has taught at the Heifetz International MusicInstitute, the Perlman Music Program, Kneisel Hall, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, and Domaine Forget,and was a masterclass artist for the Starling-DeLay Symposium and American String Teacher Association. She served as the Starling Fellow teaching assistant to Itzhak Perlman from 2013-2016 and teaching assistant to Catherine Cho from 2013-2018 at the Juilliard School.

In addition to performing and teaching, Ms. dePasquale is the creator of Hypermobile Musician, an online resource for musicians with hypermobility and educators who wish to learn more about teaching hypermobile students. It provides information on the impact of hypermobility specifically for musicians, as well as guidance for successful and mindful management.

A graduate of the Juilliard and Colburn Schools, Ms. dePasquale studied with Itzhak Perlman, Catherine Cho, and Robert Lipsett. Previous teachers include Hirono Oka, Charles Parker, and William dePasquale, with additional mentorship from Norman Carol and Arnold Steinhardt.