Stephen Clapp

Stephen Clapp

Stephen Clapp is a violinist and educator and former Dean of the Juilliard School. __TOC__

Education

Stephen Clapp earned the B.M degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and the M.S. degree from the Juilliard School. He is a former student of Dorothy DeLay, Ivan Galamian, and Andor Toth. He studied chamber music with Claus Adam, Robert Mann, Felix Galimir, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juilliard_String_Quartet Raphael Hillyer] , Louis Persinger, and Walter Trampler.

Performance

As a member of the Beaux-Arts String Quartet, Mr. Clapp won the first [http://www.naumburg.org/ Naumberg Chamber Music Award] . , and the [http://www.austinsymphony.org/ Austin Symphony Orchestra] .

Stephen Clapp has performed in numerous summer festivals in Europe and North America. He was first violinist in the [http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/page/l0q3DO Blair String Quartet] from 1967-72.

In 1982, Stephen Clapp was the founding violinist of the Oberlin Trio, along with cellist Andor Toth Jr. and pianist Joseph Schwartz.

On April 28, 1985, Tim Page (music critic) of the New York Times had this to say about Stephen Clapps's playing in a New York debut recital: "Mr. Clapp, who was ably accompanied by the pianist Frances Walker, plays sweetly and songfully, with innate taste; he produces a dark, affecting tone from his instrument, which sounded almost like a viola at times. . . . a vigorous interpretation, which it received Sunday."

Teaching

Stephen Clapp has taught violin at a number of schools.
* Aspen Music Festival and School, 1971-94
* Peabody College, Nashville, TN), 1967-72
* University of Texas at Austin, TX, 1972-79
* Oberlin Conservatory, 1978-90
* The Juilliard School, 1990 to present

tudents

*Robert Gillespie, PhD, University of Texas, former President of the American String Teachers Association, faculty member at Ohio State University
*Mary Ellen Spencer Goree, BM, Oberlin Conservatory, principal second violin of the San Antonio Symphony
*Lennie Haight, BM Peabody College, Nashville, violinist in the Gothenberg Sweden orchestra
*Erin Hall, BM, Juilliard, associate concertmaster of the Nashville Symphony
*Cornelia Heard, pre-college faculty at the Blair School of Music in Nashville, violinist in the [http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/page/l0q3DO Blair String Quartet]
*Laura Klugherz, DMA, University of Texas, violin faculty at Colgate University
*Judy Mass, MM, University of Texas, violinist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic
*Laura McGinnis, BM, Oberlin Conservatory, violinist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
*Mary Catherine Parker, pre-college faculty at the Blair School of Music in Nashville, concertmaster of the Nashville Symphony
*Karen Stiles, BM, Oberlin Conservatory, assistant principal second violin of the San Antonio Symphony
*Jonathan Sturm, BM, Oberlin Conservatory, violist in the [http://www.music.iastate.edu/org/apq/ Ames Piano Quartet]

References

New York Times Review

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E4D61F38F93BA15757C0A963948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all Stephen Clapp, violin]

External links

# [http://www.juilliard.edu/asp/fsnew/faculty_details.php?FacultyId=48&School=College&Division=Music Juilliard Biography]
# [http://www.juilliard.edu/pdf/ClappBio8-05.pdf Official Biography, PDF file]
# [http://www.violinist.com/directory/index.cfm?teacher=Stephen%20Clapp Violinists who studied with Stephen Clapp]
# [http://www.violinist.com/directory/index.cfm?teacher=Stephen%20Clapp Stephen Clapp on "flickr" speaking at Ball State University]

Selected discography

# Leon Kirchner Piano Trio [http://www.schirmer.com/Default.aspx?TabId=2476&State_3010=2&discId_3010=2797] , performed by the Oberlin Trio
# Twentieth Century American Piano Trios [http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1211147/a/Twentieth+Century+American+Piano+Trios+%2F+The+Oberlin+Trio.htm]
# French Trios [http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1515113/a/French+Trios+-+Ravel,+Loeillet,+Debussy+%2F+Oberlin+Trio.htm] - Maurice Ravel, Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent, Claude Debussy ----


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