Stephanie Griffin (musician)
Stephanie Griffin (* around 1975) is a Canadian musician ( viola ) who works in both new and improvised music.
Griffin studied viola with William Gordon in Vancouver, Paul DeClerck in Brussels and Wayne Brooks at Rice University in Houston. She completed her studies in 2003 with a Doctor of Musical Arts at the Juilliard School , where she had lessons with Samuel Rhodes. She is a founding member of the Momenta Quartet , with which she premiered more than 50 works of new music. She also appeared as a soloist with the Ensemble Continuum ; with the Argento Chamber Ensemble she was involved in the American premiere of works by Georg Friedrich Haas and Michael Jarrell .
She worked frequently with Butch Morris in the 2000s until his death in 2013, and from 1997 she played in Tony Prabowo's New Jakarta Ensemble . In the early 2000s she was also a member of Assif Tsahar's The New York Underground Orchestra (album The Labyrinth ), Carl Maguire's Floriculture ( Silver Sided Solid ) and played in projects by Anthony Braxton , Taylor Ho Bynum , Laura Andel , Hans Tammen , Ned Rothenberg and Adam Rudolph . Griffin was principal violist with the Princeton Symphony and teaches viola at Brooklyn College and Hunter College. Currently (2015) she is also working in a quintet with Ursel Schlicht , Catherine Sikora , Josh Sinton , François Grillot and Andrew Drury . She can be heard on recordings in the field of new music and improvisation music as well as world music .
Web links
- Web presence
- Portrait at Brooklyn School
- Stephanie Griffin at Allmusic (English)
- Stephanie Griffin at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord, Jazz Discography (Online)
- ↑ http://jazzrightnow.com/2015/06/03/concert-picks-for-june-2015/
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| SURNAME | Griffin, Stephanie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian musician (viola) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1975 |