Our Musicians

Irena Fraden
Violin

"My greatest joy was getting my first professional orchestra job after emigrating from the Soviet Union 30 yearsago".  Irena was first introduced to music by her father, a violin professor, at the age of 5. She continued her music education at The Tchaikovsky Music College and graduated from The Mussorgsky Conservatory (Russia) with MA degree in music. Today Irena is both a performer and a teacher. She now shares with others the joy that music has brought into her life; the joy that her father introduced her to at so young an age.