Graeme Jennings

Who is Graeme Jennings?

Graeme Jennings is an Australian classical violinist.

He studied at the Queensland Conservatorium where he completed his bachelor's degree in 1989, and later on, at the San Francisco Conservatory, earning his master's degree in 1992, and an Artist Certificate in Chamber Music in 1994. His principal violin teachers were Isadore Tinkelman, Anthony Doheny and John Curro. Whilst a student, he was concertmaster of the Queensland Youth Orchestras, the Australian Youth Orchestra, and at Expo '88 in Brisbane, the International Youth Orchestra. He has also worked with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony and Queensland Philharmonic orchestras. He made his solo debut in 1985 with the QSO, performing Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Since then, he has appeared as soloist in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, with orchestras such as the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, the Munich Philharmonic, the Paris Radio Philharmonic, the Austrian Radio Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and The Queensland Orchestra. His chamber music partners have included members of the Alban Berg Quartet, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Marc-André Hamelin, Ursula Oppens, Stefan Litwin, Joanna Macgregor, Michael Kieran Harvey, Kari Krikku, Claron McFaddon and many others.