Praised for her “dark tone” and “vibrant musicality” (Calgary Herald), violist Abigail Rojansky is a founding member of the Verona Quartet, recipient of the 2020 Cleveland Quartet Award, currently celebrating their thirteenth season. She has performed widely across the globe at festivals such as Chamber Music Northwest, Caramoor, Manchester Summer Chamber Music and Bravo! Vail and venues including Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Kennedy Center, Hong Kong City Hall and the Melbourne Recital Hall.
As a strong proponent of cross-cultural and interdisciplinary engagement, Abigail has collaborated with artists such as pipa player Wu Man, Renée Fleming, yanqin player Cheng Jin Koh, Roger Tapping, Charles Neidich, the Pacifica and Borromeo Quartets as well as artist Ana Prvački, Dance Heginbotham, ECCO and folk band I’m With Her. Further collaborators include Paul Katz, Atar Arad, Kim Kashkashian, Amir Eldan, Cho-Liang Lin, and Orion Weiss among others.
Her playing can be heard on the Verona Quartet’s three acclaimed albums as well as the upcoming release of her Quartet’s album of the early string quartets of Felix Mendelssohn. Abigail has participated in more than fifty commissions, premieres, and debut recordings by composers including Christopher Theofanidis, Reena Esmail, Sebastian Currier, Texu Kim, and Michael Gilbertson, whose Quartet (written for the Verona Quartet) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Abigail is Assistant Professor of Chamber Music at Oberlin College and Conservatory, where she joined the faculty in 2020 and regularly gives masterclasses worldwide. As of 2024, Abigail serves as Co–Artistic Director of the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance in Nova Scotia.
