LISA TIPTON
Violin

Meridian String Quartet; Director, NY Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program

Lisa Tipton, Violinist and co-founder of the award winning Meridian String Quartet has toured internationally and held residencies at Queens College, Bard College, Turtle Bay Music School and the Yale at Norfolk Summer Festival.

She has won distinctions from the Evian International Competition, Artists International and Chamber Music America and has performed chamber music with Paul Neubauer, Seymour Lipkin, Daniel Phillips, Charles Wadsworth and William Sharp.

She has performed as soloist with The Bronx Symphony, NY Chamber Orchestra, The Eric Hawkins Dance Company, at the Bach Aria Festival, has toured extensively with the Manhattan Piano Trio, and is a member of Solisti New York.

As a devoted interpreter of new music she established the Made in America series at Weill Recital Hall and has performed on the “Interpretations” series at Merkin Concert Hall. Currently she is the Director of the New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program and on the faculty of School for Strings. She has been heard on WQXR and WNYC, is recorded on LRC, Midder Music, Arizona and her recording of the Violin and Piano sonatas of Charles Ives will be released by Capstone Records in 2005.

Lisa Tipton earned her MA from Queens College, The Aaron Copland School of Music and has studied with Roman Totenberg, Ani Kavafian, Joyce Robbins, Gerald Beal, Joey Corpus and the Juilliard String Quartet. She received her BA from Cornell University where she was a College Scholar, won a Mellon Foundation Grant for Environmental Science research and was co-chairperson of an adventure organization, Wilderness Reflections. She resides in Sunnyside Gardens, NY with her husband Sebu, daughter Adrianna and toy poodle, Brownie.