Name Stephen Clapp | ||
Died January 26, 2014, Cos Cob, Greenwich, Connecticut, United States Albums Symphony No. 2 / Robert Browning Overture Similar People Oberlin Trio, Paul Kantor, Sirena Huang, Peter Slowik, Robert Lipsett |
What Is Your Vocation
Stephen Clapp (November 27, 1939 – January 26, 2014) was a violinist and Dean Emeritus of the Juilliard School.
Contents
- What Is Your Vocation
- Stephen Clapp Senior Highlights
- Education
- Performance
- Teaching
- Selected discography
- Songs
- References
Stephen Clapp Senior Highlights
Education
Clapp earned the B.M degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and the M.S. degree from the Juilliard School. He was a 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.
Performance
As a member of the Beaux-Arts String Quartet, Clapp won the first Naumburg 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 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."
Teaching
Clapp taught violin at a number of schools.
Selected discography
Songs
Merry Mount" Suite: I Overture
IV Lento maestoso
Symphony in E minor - op 32 "Gaelic": II Alla siciliana - Allegro vivace - Andante
I Moderately - wistfully
Fancy Free: 3 Dance Variations: Variation 1: Galop
Pictures At an Exhibition: Promenade
IV Fuga: Conversa
Nocturne in B Major for String Orchestra - Op 40
Las cuatro estaciones portenas: Verano porteno
Symphony in E minor - op 32 "Gaelic": III Lento con molta espressione
III Fugue: Conversa
Euterpe
Symphony no 1: II Slowly - gravely
Piano Concerto in C sharp minor - op 45: IV Allegro con scioltezza
Chasing Light…: III A Kaleidoscope Blooms Lacrimoso
Melpomene
Voices
III Allegro con fuoco
Sinfonia No 4: I Moderamente rapido
Missa Solemnis - Op 123 : Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi
II Coral: Canto do Sertao
Stroke
Merry Mount" Suite: IV Prelude to Act II and Maypole Dances
Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra: III Ritmico con brio
I Preludio: Ponteio
I Andante solenne - Allegro con forza
Canon in D Major
Mass in D Major - Op 123 - "Missa Solemnis": Gloria: Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Piano Concerto in C sharp minor - op 45: II Scherzo: Vivace
To Be Certain of the Dawn: Part II: Remembrance: Interlude: Veil of Tears
Carnaval: III Unicorns
Darkness in the Ancient Valley: III Benediction