Performances + Events
Lucy Chapman
Education and Training
B.M., Curtis Institute; M.Ed., Antioch New England. Studies with Dorothy Delay, Marc Gottlieb, Arnold Steinhardt. Recordings on EMI, CRI, New World, RCA/BMG. Former faculty of University of California/Santa Cruz, Boston University, Harvard University.
Awards and Recognition
Grammy nomination for recording of Bartok, Stravinsky, Ives
Acting associate concertmaster of San Francisco Symphony at age 29
First violinist, Muir String Quartet
Her recording of Bartok, Stravinsky, and Ives with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and pianist Richard Goode won a Grammy nomination, and she has also recorded with Keith Jarrett, whose solo sonata she premiered in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall.
At NEC, Chapman performs regularly with her colleagues, including violinists Miriam Fried and Donald Weilerstein, violist Kim Kashkashian and Roger Tapping, and cellists Paul Katz, Natasha Brofsky, and Laurence Lesser. Since joining the faculty at NEC, she has spent ten summers teaching at Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine and the past eight summers as a senior participant at the Marlboro Music Festival in Marlboro, Vermont. She was chair of the NEC strings department from 2001 through 2012.
We listen to our students. We don’t just tell them what to do; we ask them for their ideas, too. And that lives here.
Lucy Chapman
Curriculum Vitae
B.M., Curtis Institute; M.Ed., Antioch New England. Studies with Dorothy Delay, Marc Gottlieb, Arnold Steinhardt. Recordings on EMI, CRI, New World, RCA/BMG. Former faculty of University of California/Santa Cruz, Boston University, Harvard University.
- Grammy nomination for recording of Bartok, Stravinsky, Ives
- Acting associate concertmaster of San Francisco Symphony at age 29
- First violinist, Muir String Quartet
