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Chapman, Violinist, while widely sought after as a chamber musician, has had an eclectic career that spans many musical worlds. She has had solo and chamber music concerts throughout the USA, Europe, Korea and Japan. She has held positions as Acting Associate Concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony and first violin of the Muir String Quartet, and won a Grammy nomination for a recording of Bartok, Stravinsky and Ives with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and pianist Richard Goode. She also recorded with Keith Jarrett, whose solo sonata she premiered in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall. Recent performances include the Mozart Sinfonie Concertante with violist Kim Kashkashian, an all-Mozart concert in New York with pianist Robert Levin, guest appearances with the Boston Chamber Music Society, and return visits to the Busan Festival in Korea and the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont.
Ms. Chapman teaches violin and chamber music at the New England Conservatory, where she also serves as Chair of String and Chamber Music departments. She is a former faculty member of the University of California/Santa Cruz, Boston and Harvard Universities. For eight summers she was on the faculty of Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine, where she will return in the summer of 2009. This summer will mark her first appearances at the National Orchestral Institute and the Portland Chamber Music Festival. Ms. Chapman is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Arnold Steinhardt of the Guarneri Quartet; her other principal teachers include Dorothy Delay and Marc Gottlieb. Ms. Chapman also earned a Masters in Education from the Antioch New England Graduate School, where she specialized in Waldorf Education.
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