Stephanie Chase is the daughter of two musicians, the noted arranger and composer Bruce Chase and violinist Fannie Chase.
17 Facts About Stephanie Chase
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Stephanie Chase gave her first public performance when only two years old and was recognized as a child prodigy.
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Stephanie Chase studied first with her mother and then embarked on studies with Sally Thomas, then an assistant to Ivan Galamian at The Juilliard School.
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Stephanie Chase is a specialist in period instrument practice and actively performs on both types of violins.
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Stephanie Chase attained world prominence as a top medalist of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982, an achievement that is especially remarkable in view of the extremely poor relations that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union at the time plus the fact that violin jury chairman Leonid Kogan had two of his own students, Viktoria Mullova and Sergei Stadler, competing.
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In 1986, Stephanie Chase was a featured soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic on its debut concert tour of the People's Republic of China, with Kenneth Schermerhorn conducting.
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Stephanie Chase's recording of Beethoven's Violin Concerto and Romances, with the Hanover Band, was the first ever on period instruments and features her own cadenzas.
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Stephanie Chase is a former member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and has recorded several works with the ensemble.
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Stephanie Chase is a frequent guest of music festivals worldwide, including Caramoor, Kuhmo, the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, the Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Festival, the Mt.
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Between 2007 and 2011, Stephanie Chase programmed and hosted several events at the Philoctetes Center as part of its "Music and Imagination" series.
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Music arrangements by Stephanie Chase have been performed by Itzhak Perlman and The Perlman Music Program and performed and recorded by The American String Project.
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Articles by Stephanie Chase have been published in journals that include Strings Magazine and The Strad.
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From 2002 to 2019 Stephanie Chase was an assistant professor of violin and chamber music at the Steinhardt School at New York University.
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Stephanie Chase is a frequent judge for concerto competitions at The Juilliard School and other institutions that include the Concert Artists Guild, the Concorso Andrea Postacchini in Italy, and the Cooper Competition in Oberlin, Ohio.
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Stephanie Chase plays on a violin made in 1742 by Pietro Guarneri, the ex-Paschell, which she pairs with a bow made by Dominique Peccatte.
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Stephanie Chase is married to the musical instrument expert Stewart Pollens and is an aunt to the actors Becki Newton and Matt Newton.
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Stephanie Chase won the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Youth Competition at age nine.