Faculty Guide

Title

Professor of the Practice of Music

Music

Expertise

Violin, Lydian String Quartet. Performance and analysis.

Awards and Honors

Review, Boston Musical Intelligencer: (2012)

Review: Boston Musical Intelligencer (http://classical-scene.com/2012/09/24/freshness/ (2012)

Review, American Record Guide (March/April '10; Harbison String Quartets, p. 98) (2010)

Boston Globe Review (July 19, 2009, ("Spinning Local" review of Harbison String Quartets) (2009)

Boston Music Intelligencer, March 27, online blog: http://classical-scene.com/2010/03/28/maximizing-musical-intent-from-lydian-quartet/) (2009)

Review, Buffalo News ("Lydian's act is tunefully together") (2009)

Excellence in teaching award, Harvard University (2008)

Review, Buffalo News 9http://www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/story/494252.html0 (2008)

Top Classical Performance Award for 2005, The Boston Globe, Lydian Spring Quartet (2005)

Recording of special merit, Stereo Review Magazine (Buxtehude) (2003)

National Endowment for Arts Grant (1999)

Aaron Copeland Foundation Grant (1992)

As Lydian: ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) Award for Adventuresome Programming in Chamber Music (1992)

As Lydian: Boston Globe Best Contemporary Recording ("The Quartets of John Harbison") (1992)

As Lydian: Meet the Composer/Rockefeller Foundation/AT Jazz Program Commission (1991)

As Lydian: Artists-of-the-Year, Boston Globe (1990)

As Lydian: Best Record of Year, Boston Globe (1990)

Lydian: Boston Herald Best Chamber Group of the Year (1989)

Lydian: Chamber Music America Commission Grant (1989)

Lydian: Grammy nomination, "Quartet," Irving Fine (1989)

As member of Lydian Quartet: Pew Charitable Trust/Chamber Music America grant to commission composer Lee Hyla for new work (1988)

Courses Taught

MUS	111a	Private Instruction: Instrumentalists
MUS	111b	Private Instruction: Instrumentalists
MUS	116a	Inside the Piece: Chamber Music from the Player's Perspective
MUS	116b	Inside the Piece: Chamber Music from the Player's Perspective
MUS	117a	Junior Recital I
MUS	117b	Junior Recital II
MUS	118a	Senior Recital I
MUS	118b	Senior Recital II
USEM	16b	Ten Masterworks of Western Classical Music

Scholarship

Stepner, Daniel, Lydian String Quartet, Victor Sachse. Performer. The Five Late Beethoven Quartets. Centaur Records, 2010. (forthcoming)

Stepner, Daniel, Sally Pinkas. Neoclassic masterworks for violin and piano. TBD, 2010. (forthcoming)

Stepner, Daniel. John Harbison: The First Four String Quartets (with the Lydian String Quartet). Centaur Recods, 2010.

Stepner, Daniel. Performer. Rameau: Piéces de Clavecin en Concerts, and two cantatas, ("Orphée," and "L'impatience"). Centaur Records, 2010.

Stepner, Daniel. SEE C.V. for complete recordings list (too numerous to fill in each one below). 2007.

Stepner,Daniel. The Mirror and other chamber music of Yehudi Wyner (CD, grammy nominated). Naxos Records, 2004.

Stepner,Daniel. Solo Recording: Charles Ives: Five Violin Sonatas (w/ John Kirkpatrick). HMS Musicmasters, 2003.

Stepner,Daniel. Solo Recording: Dietrich Buxtehude: Four Sonatas a Due. Harmonia Mundi (France), 2003.

Stepner,Daniel. Solo Recording: J.S. Bach: Complete Works for Violin and Continuo. Titanic, 2003.

Stepner,Daniel. Solo Recording: Leo Ornstein: Piano Quintette. C.R.I., 2003.

Stepner,Daniel. Solo Recording: Leo Ornstein: String Quartet #3. Serenus, 2003.

Stepner,Daniel. Solo Recording: Marin Marais: Complete Works for Violin. Gamba and Continuo, Titanic, 2003.

Stepner,Daniel. Solo Recording: Rameu: Pieces de Clavecin en Concerts. Titanic, 2003.

Stepner,Daniel. Solo Recording: Telemann: Four Methodical Sonatas. Pro Arte, 2003.

Stepner,Daniel. Solo Recording: Vivaldi: Four "Pisendl Sonatis. Harmonia Mundi, 2003.

Stepner,Daniel. As Lydian: "Schubert Quartets. Centaur Records, 1993.

Stepner,Daniel. As Lydian: "John Harbison String Quartets. Harmonia Mundi Recordings, 1992.

Stepner,Daniel. As Lydian: "The String Quartets of Charles Ives. Centaur Records, Inc., 1990.