Scholarship and Biography

Founder and second violinist of the Lydian String Quartet in residence at Brandeis University since 1980. Plays the full range of the chamber music repertoire. Performances in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Taiwan. Commissions, premieres, and records many new works. Works with young and established composers. Experience with period instrument performance, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural performance, contemporary music. Interested in the intersection of the Arts and Social Transformation. Teaches violin and chamber music, with emphasis on how interpretation is informed by context. Founder and Director of MusicUnitesUS (Brandeis: 2005-2022) whose mission is to further the understanding and appreciation of diverse cultures through music. Taught Global Soundscapes (music of diverse world traditions) and Chamber Music at Brandeis. Faculty Committee member for CAST interdisciplinary minor (Creativity, the Arts and Social Transformation). Professor of Music at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee (2001-present), Co-founder, director and performer at at music festivals in NY, VT, MA.

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Founder/second violin 1980-2022
From 2001-present

Honors

As member Lydian Quartet: Evian International String Quartet Competition; 2nd grand prize; contemporary music prize; best performance of French piece prize
Evian International String Quartet Competition, 1982
Fellowship
Aspen Music Festival and School, 1982
As member Lydian Quartet: 3rd Grand Prize & Contemporary Prize, Banff International String Quartet Competition
Banff Centre (Canada, Banff), 1982-1983
As member Lydian Quartet: Winner, Naumburg Chamber Music Award
Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, 1984
As member Lydian Quartet: Prizewinner, Portsmouth (England) International String Quartet Competition
Evian International String Quartet Competition, 1985
As member Lydian Quartet: Pew Charitable Trust/Chamber Music American grant to commission composer Lee Hyla for new work
Pew Charitable Trusts (United States, Philadelphia), 1988
Chamber Music America Commission Grant
Chamber Music America, 1989
Lydian: Grammy nomination, "Quartet" Irving Fine
Grammy Foundation (United States, Santa Monica), 1989
Boston Herald Best Chamber Group of Year
Boston Herald, 1989
Lydian: Grammy nomination, "Quartet", Irving Fine
Recording Academy, 1989
As Lydian: Artists-of-the-Year
The Boston Globe, 1990
As Lydian: Best Record of Year, Boston Globe
The Boston Globe, 1990
As Lydian: Meet the Composer/Rockefeller Foundation /AT Jazz Program Commission
Rockefeller Foundation (United States, New York), 1991
Aaron Copland Foundation Grant
Aaron Copland Fund for Music (United States, New York), 1992
As Lydian: American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Award for Adventuresome Programming in Chamber Music
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (United States, New York) - ASCAP, 1992
Best Contemporary Recording (The Quartets of John Harbison)
The Boston Globe, 1992
Boston Globe Best Contemporary Recording (The Quartets of John Harbison)
The Boston Globe, 1992
Lydians: National Endowment for Arts grant (1999)
National Endowment for the Arts (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEA, 1999
Top Classical Performance Award for 2005, The Boston Globe, Lydian String Quartet (2005)
The Boston Globe, 2005
BOLLI Distinguished Speakers Award (2007)
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2007
Tenured Faculty
Chamber Music Conference, 2008
Norman Grant for Faculty Research and Creative Projects
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2009, 2011, 2013
Invited Participant to international Gugak Workshop, Seoul, Korea
National Gugak Center (South Korea, Seoul), 2011
Marion and Jasper Whiting Fellowship
Williams College (United States, Williamstown), 2012
Invited Fellow at Harvard University Music Department
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 2013
Grant for Scholarly or Creative Projects related to Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2015
Grant for proposal to Brandeis Arts Council: Sound Mapping of Home
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2015
ACMP (for Chamber Music Workshop)
Associated Chamber Music Players, 2018
Further Forward Foundation (for Chamber Music Workshop)
Further Forward Foundation, 2018
Brandeis Arts Council (for MusicUnitesUS residency)
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2018 - 2019
Poses Foundation (for MusicUnitesUS residency)
Poses Family Foundation, 2018-2019

Organizational Affiliations

Professor of the Practice of Music, Emerita, Department of Music, Brandeis University

Professor, Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Education

Yale University
M.M.
SUNY at Purchase College
B.M.