Daniel Stepner enters his 23rd season as Concertmaster of the Handel and Haydn Society 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. Stepner 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

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