Daniel Stepner enters his eightteenth season as Concertmaster of Handel and Haydn this fall. His artistic achievements with the Society recently won him special praise in the Boston Herald, "Concertmaster Daniel Stepner plays early music like no other local violinist. He's a true leader." Mr. is also first violinist of the Lydian String Quartet (in residence at Brandeis University), a member of the Boston Museum Trio (resident a the MFA), Artistic Director of the Aston Magna Festival in the Berkshires, and a Preceptor in Music at Harvard University. He has performed chamber and solo music from 1589 through 2002, and has recorded baroque sonatas by Bach, Vivaldi and Marais, major chamber works of Schubert, Brahms, Harbison, and Yehudi Wyner, and violin and piano sonatas of Charles Ives. He has been concertmaster for a number of orchestras, including Boston Baroque, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and the New Haven Symphony. As a touring musician, he has played in eleven countries in Western Europe and the former Soviet Union, and throughout Australia and the United States. Mr. Stepner hails from Wisconsin, and his major teachers were Steven Staryk in Chicago, Nadia Boulanger in France, and Broadus Erle at Yale, where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. He has taught violin and chamber music at the New England Conservatory, the Eastman School, Boston University and the Longy School.

SUMMER ACTIVITIES

This summer, Mr. Stepner maintains an active performing schedule with Lydian String Quartet. In early June, he will present two concerts with the Lydian String Quartet to benefit the Quartet’s Chamber Music Workship held annually at Brandeis. The concerts will be on June 7th and 14th at 8.00pm from the Slosberg Auditorium at Brandeis University. They will also be performing in Martha’s Vineyard. He will also direct the Aston Magna Festival, a period instrument festival held in July and August in the Berkshires.

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