ELISE FRAWLEY
VIOLA/VIOLIN ADJUNCT FACULTY

Elise is a New York-based violist who performs and records classical, contemporary, and popular music. Her performances have taken her to concert venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, The Beacon Theatre, New York's Town Hall, SXSW, and across the country. Elise has performed with a number of orchestras including the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the American Ballet Theatre, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, the New Haven Symphony, the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, among others. She has appeared on various major and independent label albums, as well as Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Live from Here, America’s Got Talent!, and the Amazon Prime Original Series “Mozart in the Jungle”.

Elise is a co-founder of Atlantic Collective, a contemporary ensemble that features flexible instrumentation and works by composers from around the world that explore our common humanity. She has presented recitals with her duo partner, Nuno Marques, at St. Paul's Chapel Trinity Church Wall Street, the 92NY Faculty series, and the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge, premiering new works for viola and piano at each recital. As a soloist, she has performed the Bartok Viola Concerto, and given the New York premiere of the Beamish Viola Concerto No. 2, “The Seafarer”, with the Chelsea Symphony. Along with classical music, Elise has enjoyed working with contemporary artists and contributing string sounds to a variety of projects. Artists she has performed and/or recorded with include Paul Simon, St. Vincent, Danger Mouse, Alessia Cara, Julia Michaels, Jon Batiste, Kygo, Halsey, Meghan Trainor, Andrew Bird, Pharaohe Monch, Jacky Cheung, Kelis, Shallou, Pink Martini, Kishi Bashi, Shoshana Bean, Cynthia Erivo, Grace McLean, Santino Fontana, Nathan Gunn, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Falls, Landlady, Cassandra Jenkins, and the Airborne Toxic Event. She performed with John Cale of The Velvet Underground and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn at the opening of the new Whitney Museum as part of a live soundtrack to Andy Warhol’s film, “Empire”. She was part of the live performance of “41 Strings” at Rockefeller Center, a project by the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s guitarist Nick Zinner, featuring members of the bands LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, TV on the Radio, and other notable indie rock musicians.

An active recording musician, Elise has appeared on multiple major and indie label albums, including Jon Batiste's Hollywood Africans (Verve Records), Danger Mouse’s Resistance Radio: Man in the High Castle (30th Century Records), among others. She has recorded for artists on Mason Jar Music and Likeminds Music. She has also appeared on numerous orchestral recordings.

Elise performs on a 2001 viola by Guy Rabut, a bench copy of a 1580 Gasparo da Salo viola. She is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and NYU, where she served as Adjunct Instructor of Viola. She serves as a faculty member at the 92NY and the Trinity School. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and their two young sons.