14th Annual Unaccompanied Bach Summer Workshop
for Violin and Viola
Brandeis University
June 21-26, 2020
Dan Stepner and Workshop Students
Each year, six to eight students are selected for the Aston Magna Unaccompanied Bach Workshop, a six-day intensive summer violin and viola workshop for students, serious amateurs and professional musicians. The workshop is open to students, serious amateurs and or professional musicians. Some financial aid is available.
The workshop schedule includes:
Private coaching
Master classes
Private practice time
Lectures and demonstrations
Informal performance
Open rehearsals
Free admission to Thursday evening Aston Magna Music Festival concerts
Final workshop concert
Workshops are open to players of either modern and/or period instruments; some period instruments are available for student use. All workshop activities take place in the Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis’ air-conditioned music center.
The workshop is led by Daniel Stepner, a master of the baroque and modern violin, and artistic director of the Aston Magna Music Festival.
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Daniel Stepner, Professor (Emeritus) of Brandeis University, was first violinist of the Lydian String Quartet from 1987-2016. He was also a Preceptor in Music at Harvard University for two decades, and Concertmaster of the Handel and Haydn Society for 24 years. He was a founding member of the Boston Museum Trio (at the Museum of Fine Arts) for 30 years, and has been Artistic Director of the Aston Magna Festival since 1991.
Dr. Stepner has recorded music of four centuries on period and modern instruments, including the Sonatas and Partitas of J.S Bach, the late quartets of Beethoven, and 20 th century chamber or solo music of Ysaÿe (the Ten Preludes), Hindemith, Bartok, Ives (The Five Violin Sonatas), Harbison, Wyner, Perkinson, Persichetti, Child, Schuman, and many others.
Mr. Stepner studied with 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 at the Eastman School, The New England Conservatory, Boston University, Harvard University, Brandeis University and in the STEP program in Boston.
More information and audio can be found at danielstepner.com