STEPHANIE CHASE

Since 2010, Stephanie Chase has performed at least once nearly every season as a guest artist with Music in Context. Her first appearance was at the invitation of its co-founder, Sergiu Luca (1943–2010), who was the first violinist she ever heard perform solo Bach on Baroque violin, at a time when historically-informed performance practice was virtually unknown in the United States. Her subsequent collaborations with Brian Connelly and the musicians of Context remain a highlight of her career, during which she has been recognized as “one of the violin greats of our era” (Newhouse News) for her “rich, passionate tone and virtuosity galore” (Gramophone Magazine) plus “elegance, dexterity, rhythmic vitality and great imagination” (Boston Globe).

Chase made the first ever recording of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto on original instruments, which was highly praised as a “Record of the Month” (Classic CD) for her “great sense of style, matchless technique and flawless intonation.” (HC Robbins Landon, BBC Music Magazine). As soloist, she has performed with orchestras that include the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and London Symphony Orchestra, and she has concertized in 25 countries.

Stephanie Chase is a top medalist of the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant. Her principal teachers were Sally Thomas of the Juilliard School and the renowned Belgian artist Arthur Grumiaux, and she studied chamber music during four summers at the Marlboro Festival, which was founded in 1951 by Herman and Adolf Busch, Marcel Moyse, and Rudolf Serkin. To learn more, please visit www.stephaniechase.com.