Stephanie Vial

Cellist Stephanie Vial enjoys a multi-faceted career as a performer, educator, and writer on music. She has traveled widely, giving solo and chamber music concerts, lectures, and master classes at numerous universities and institutions: The Shrine to Music Museum in South Dakota, The University of Virginia, Boston Conservatory, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, McGill University, and The Curtis Institute of Music. She is the Artistic Director of the early music series Baroque & Beyond (www.baroqueandbeyond.org) in Chapel Hill, NC, and Co-director of The Vivaldi Project (www.thevivaldiproject.org) and its educational arm, the Institute for Early Music on Modern Instruments (EMMI).

Her recent work developing their four-volume recording series, Discovering the Classical String Trio (MSR Classics) has received critical acclaim, hailed as "captivating" and "highly recommended" by Gramophone. She can also be heard on the Dorian Label, Naxos, Hungaroton, and Centaur Records. She is the author of The Art of Musical Phrasing in the Eighteenth Century: Punctuating the Classical “Period,” published by the University of Rochester Press for the Eastman Studies in Music Series. Vial holds a D.M.A. in 18th-century performance practice from Cornell University where she studied with John Hsu. She currently teaches and coaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.