Maren Rothfritz

Profile

Discipline: Strings

Maren Rothfritz is a passionate artist and educator who is equally at home on the concert stage and in the teaching studio. As violist in the Argus Quartet since 2019, Rothfritz enjoys seeking colorful musical expressions across a wide range of repertoire, old and new. From 2016 to 2018 she was a Fellow with Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, performing and teaching throughout New York City. Previously, she completed her master’s degree with Kim Kashkashian at New England Conservatory, where her concentration was music in education. Her festival credits include Yellow Barn, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, the Lucerne Festival Academy, and Keshet Eilon. Born in Paderborn, Germany, Rothfritz began violin studies at age 4. At 16, she entered the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and joined the viola class of Diemut Poppen a year later. She subsequently attended the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid (2011–13) and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (2013–14), where she studied with Nobuko Imai. She moved to the United States in 2014 and is now working toward a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she was awarded the prestigious CUNY Graduate Center Fellowship and is mentored by Ettore Causa. Currently, she teaches at Brooklyn College and is on the faculty at the annual music camp Luzerne Music Center, New York.