Stephanie Chase

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   Stephanie Chase (born in Evanston, Illinois) is an American concert violinist and educator.
   
   Chase's playing is characterized by "virtuosity galore," with "great intensity and a huge tone, the epitome of the modern violinist" and she is "renowned for her impeccable intonation." As soloist, she has performed in twenty-five countries with the New York Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Alanta Symphony, among many others. Her active repertoire features over 50 concertos,, and she has soloed in collaboration with conductors that include Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Herbert Blomstedt, Frans Brüggen, Marin Alsop, Roy Goodman, Hugh Wolff and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski.[5]
   
   Chase gave her first public performance when only two years old and was recognized as a child prodigy. She studied first with her mother, Fannie Chase, and then embarked on studies with Sally Thomas, then an assistant to Ivan Galamian at The Juilliard School. While still in her teens she moved to Belgium to study privately with Arthur Grumiaux, who is noted as "holding her in regard for her energy and the way in which she put into practice what he taught...(and) she remained one of his preferred pupils." Following her return to the United States, Chase attended the Marlboro Festival in Vermont in the early 1980's, where she was coached in chamber music by musicians that included Rudolf Serkin, Rudolf Firkusny, Felix Galimir, Samuel Rhodes, and David Soyer.
   
   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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