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

2025-2026 season highlights include 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 for solo violin and ensemble with conductor Timothy Weiss and the Oberlin Contemporary Ensemble. Recent performance highlights include 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, as well as the world premiere of Kenji Bunch’s Sketches for Mr. South presented by The Juilliard School and Samuel Adams’ Chamber Concerto with conductor Timothy Weiss and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble. Additional highlights include 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 (commissioned by Francesca dePasquale and co-commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society) and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto with conductor Raphael Jimenez and the Oberlin Orchestra.

Recent and upcoming discography releases include the Aletheia Piano Trio’s debut album, Beethoven Op. 30 Sonatas for Piano and Violin with pianist Peter Takács for New Leaf Records, and Gity Razaz’s Duo for Violin and Piano on her debut album for BIS records, recorded with pianist Scott Cuellar.

Francesca 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 recitalist, she has collaborated with artists Meng-Chieh Liu, Natalie Zhu, John Root, and Reiko Uchida on series such as 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, Francesca has performed with renowned artists Adrian Brendel, Paul Coletti, Thomas Cooley, Jennifer Frautschi, Kim Kashkashian, Nicholas Kitchen, Ronald Leonard, Robert Levin, Pavel Nersessian, Merry Peckham, Itzhak Perlman, Jeffrey Sykes, Roger Tapping, Richard Todd, Donald Weilerstein, and Helena Winkelman. Francesca is a member of the artist roster for Manhattan Chamber Players and Chameleon Arts Ensemble. 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. Additionally, she has collaborated with dancers Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside for the Fall for Dance Festival alongside composer Stefan Levin, as well as performed with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, The Knights, and A Far Cry.

Francesca is the violinist of the Aletheia Piano Trio alongside pianist Fei-Fei and cellist Juliette Herlin. Formed in 2013 at the Juilliard School, the trio gave debut performances at the Rose Studio and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York and the Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The Aletheia Piano Trio has performed for the Dame Myra Hess Series (Chicago, IL), Logan Chamber Music Society (Logan, UT), Shenson Chamber Music Concerts (Washington, D.C.), PLAY the Classics at Bethel Woods (Bethel, NY), Friends of Chamber Music (Reading, PA), Macon Concert Association at Wesleyan College (Macon, GA), Concerts in the Barn (Quilcene, WA), Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach (Palm Beach, FL), Saint Vincent College Concert Series (Latrobe, PA), Shandelee Music Festival (Livingston Manor, NY), and the Busan Maru International Music Festival (Busan, Korea), which included Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Gustav Mahler Orchestra and conductor Wilson Ng. Additionally, the trio has toured China in 2018 and 2019, performing at Poly Theatres throughout the country. Recent media highlights include a live recital broadcast for WFMT (Chicago) as well as several broadcasts on Performance Today of Haydn Trio No. 39 in G major, recorded live in performance for the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach. Additionally, the trio has recently released two video recordings of the Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel piano trio and Schumann Phantasiestücke Op. 88, both available on YouTube. Their debut album will release in Spring of 2026.

In addition to performing and teaching, Francesca is the creator of Hypermobile Musician, an online resource for musicians with hypermobility and educators who wish to learn more about teaching hypermobile musicians. Hypermobile Musician provides information on the impact of hypermobility specifically for musicians, as well as guidance for successful and mindful management. For more information, visit http://hypermobilemusician.com.

Francesca 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. Additionally, she has taught at the Heifetz International Music Institute, 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. Previously, Francesca 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, as well as Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin Conservatory of Music during the Fall of 2018. A graduate of the Juilliard and Colburn Schools, Francesca 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.