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Alan has been married for thirty years to Dr.Elissa Sanders [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a psychiatrist with the Cornell Medical College and in private practice in New York City. The couple has three children ages 15 and 11 (twins) with whom Alan loves to spend as much time as he can. He and his wife live in the greater New York-New Jersey area.
His first lessons took place at a music store in Pottstown, Pennsylvania [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], where he studied for one year.He then went to The New School of Music in Philadelphia, where his teachers were Paul Eves and later Orlando Cole, Eves' teacher.
Alan Stepansky's Performances
Alan Stepansky's Teaching Career
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Alan Stepansky's Private Life
He began to appear in small student recitals at the Curtis institute in Philadelphia and while at college (Harvard University in Boston), he studied privately at the New England Conservatory with Lawrence Lesser.His last cello teacher was Harvey Shapiro at the Juilliard School in New York City.
After his time with the New York Philharmonic, Alan began to concentrate on teaching and is now (2010) Professor of Cello at the Manhattan School of Music and head of the cello department at the New England Conservatory of Music. He is also on the artist faculty of the Music Academy of the West. At Peabody, there is an Orchestral Performance Program, a graduate degree program that trains orchestral players which Stepansky oversees.
After college Alan began subbing in the cello section of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Opera Company of Boston. This led to his being named principal cello of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra under John Williams.
Private conversations with Alan Stepansky, 2010.
When asked his opinion on these three illustrious conductors, Stepansky spoke about the amazing opportunity he had to play under such a terrific musician as Bernstein, even though the conductor was very ill and soon after ended his conducting career. As for Zubin Mehta, Alan says that he embodied the joy of music making and was always ready to tour and explore new avenues, while Kurt Mazur had musical integrity and had a great impact on the orchestra.
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At the age of seven he became interested in the cello and picked out the instrument he wanted. Coming from a musical father played the violin and his two brothers the was not unusual for him to be bitten by the music bug.
Alan Stepansky's Music Education
He was also teaching at this time and coaching student chamber music groups. In 1989 Stepansky joined the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as associate principal cellist during Leonard Bernstein's last days as conductor. He continued it that position for ten years, working with Zubin Mehta and Kurt Mazur. See
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Bernstein [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] Mehta and Mazur.
Cellist Alan Stepansky is a native of Morristown, Pennsylvania, where he was born on November 15, 1960.