Stephen Clapp
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Stephen Clapp (born 1939) is a violinist and educator and former Dean of the Juilliard School.
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[edit] Education
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, Raphael Hillyer, Louis Persinger, and Walter Trampler.
[edit] Performance
As a member of the Beaux-Arts String Quartet, Clapp won the first Naumberg Chamber Music Award. He won the Josef Gingold Prize of the Cleveland Society for Strings while a student at the Oberlin Conservatory. Clapp was concertmaster of the Aspen Chamber Symphony, Nashville Symphony, and the Austin Symphony Orchestra.
Clapp has performed in numerous summer festivals in Europe and North America. He was first violinist in the Blair String Quartet from 1967-72.
In 1982, 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 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."
[edit] Teaching
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, 1987 to present
[edit] Selected discography
- Leon Kirchner Piano Trio [1], performed by the Oberlin Trio
- 20th century American Piano Trios [2]
- French Trios [3] - Maurice Ravel, Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent, Claude Debussy
