The Juilliard School reports that Stephen Clapp, its Dean Emeritus, violinist, educator, and administrator, died on January 26 at his home in Cos Cob, Connecticut, after a long illness. He was 74. Clapp served as Associate Dean of the Juilliard School from 1991 to 1994, Dean from 1994 to 2007, and then Dean Emeritus, while continuing to serve as a member of the violin faculty and chamber music faculty. He was working with students as recently as the week before he died. Clapp was born in Tallman, New York, and attended Oberlin Conservatory; the Mozarteum Akademie in Salzburg, Austria; and Juilliard, where he studied with Ivan Galamian and Dorothy DeLay. He earned his Master of Science degree in Music from Juilliard in 1965 and won the first Walter W. Naumberg Chamber Music Award the same year, as a member of the Beaux Arts String Quartet. He served as professor of violin at Oberlin College-Conservatory and chair of its string department, and joined Juilliard as a full-time faculty member in 1987. He is survived by his wife, Linda; daughter, Amy Clapp Dye; and sons Peter and Andrew. A funeral service will be held on February 1 at 2 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Stamford, Connecticut. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Stephen Clapp Memorial Violin Scholarship.
Posted January 29, 2014
