Lya W. Stern is a violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

ist, recording artist and violin teacher. Born Lya Weiss to a Jewish family in Cluj

Cluj-Napoca

Cluj-Napoca , commonly known as Cluj, is the fourth most populous city in Romania and the seat of Cluj County in the northwestern part of the country. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest , Budapest and Belgrade...

, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

, Lya Stern moved to the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 as a teenager. She is married to Larry Stern and has two children.

Education

• Post graduate studies in the violin master class
  Master class
  A master class is a class given to students of a particular discipline by an expert of that discipline—usually music, but also painting, drama, or any of the arts....
  
   of Jascha Heifetz
  Jascha Heifetz
  Jascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :...
  
   at University of Southern California
  University of Southern California
  The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
  
  Thornton School of Music,
• Master's Degree
  Master's degree
  A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
  
   with Honors,Violin Performance, Eudice Shapiro, University of Southern California
  University of Southern California
  The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
  
  ,
• Bachelors Degree in Violin Performance, Raphael Bronstein
  Raphael Bronstein
  -Early life:He was born in a Jewish family in Vilnius, Lithuania and studied violin with Leopold Auer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He arrived in the United States in 1923 to take a job as an assistant to Auer. Mr. Bronstein had one daughter, Ariana Bronne, who taught at the Manhattan School...
  
  , Manhattan School of Music
  Manhattan School of Music
  The Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...
  
  

Additional studies in solo, chamber and orchestral playing at:

• Yale University
  Yale University
  Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
  
  , New Haven, CT
• Dartmouth College
  Dartmouth College
  Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
  
  , Hanover, NH
• Kneisel Hall
  Kneisel Hall
  Kneisel Hall is an annual chamber music festival and school located in Blue Hill, Maine. The season runs for seven weeks each summer from mid-June until early August. A small faculty works with approximately fifty pre-professional musicians, concentrating almost exclusively on chamber music for...
  
  , Blue Hill, ME.

A student of two of Leopold Auer

Leopold Auer

Leopold Auer was a Hungarian violinist, teacher, conductor and composer.-Early life and career:...

's students (Raphael Bronstein

Raphael Bronstein

-Early life:He was born in a Jewish family in Vilnius, Lithuania and studied violin with Leopold Auer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He arrived in the United States in 1923 to take a job as an assistant to Auer. Mr. Bronstein had one daughter, Ariana Bronne, who taught at the Manhattan School...

 and Jascha Heifetz

Jascha Heifetz

Jascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :...

) Lya Stern was a resident, artist and teacher in New York

New York

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 and Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

. She currently lives in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 where she chairs the ASTA Certificate Program for Strings.

Teaching credits

• String Teacher of the Year 1999, American String Teachers Association
  American String Teachers Association
  The American String Teacher's Association is a professional organization based in the United States for music teachers. It is the largest such national organization in the US for string teachers. It promotes learning to play string instruments in the next generation of American students, and...
  
   MD/DC State Chapter
• Citation for Exceptional Leadership and Merit 2000, ASTA National
• Chair of the Maryland ASTA Certificate Advancement Program (ASTACAP) since 1998
• Founded the ASTA National Certificate Program for Strings for which she received the Outstanding Service For Strings Award in 1998.
• Past President of the MD/DC chapter of ASTA.
• Past Chair: MD State Solo Competition for Strings, ASTA; Brewster Competition for Strings, MD Music Teachers Assoc; Gretchen Hood Competition, Washington Music Teachers Assoc.
• Served as Adjudicator of competitions for the Washington Performing Arts Society, the Levine School of Music, etc.
• Past member of the faculty of the Baltimore School for the Arts
  Baltimore School for the Arts
  Baltimore School for the Arts is a public high school located in Baltimore, Maryland and is a part of its public school system. BSA offers concentrations in classical music, theater, dance, theater production and visual art...
  
  

Symphonic, opera and ballet

National Gallery Orchestra, National Symphony Pops, Washington Bach Consort, Maryland Lyric Opera House

Lyric Opera House

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, Paul Hill Chorale Orchestra, Alexandria Symphony, California Chamber Symphony, Roger Wagner Master Chorale and Simphonia, American Ballet Theater, Bolshoi

Bolshoi

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 and Kirov

Mariinsky Ballet

The Mariinsky Ballet is a classical ballet company based at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in the 18th century and originally known as the Imperial Russian Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet is one of the world's leading ballet companies...

 Ballets
Nureyev and The Paris Opera Ballet

Paris Opera Ballet

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, Dance Theatre of Harlem

Dance Theatre of Harlem

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, Santa Monica Symphony, New American Orchestra, Los Angeles Pops Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony, Glendale Symphony, San Fernando Valley Symphony, Westside Symphony, Westchester Symphony, Hollywood Chamber Orchestra

TV shows and concerts

Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli

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, Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett

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, Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Hamlisch

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, Vikki Carr

Vikki Carr

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, Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach

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, Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand

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, Pia Zadora

Pia Zadora

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, Robert Goulet

Robert Goulet

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, Bing Crosby

Bing Crosby

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, Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters

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, Rosemary Clooney

Rosemary Clooney

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, Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Sinatra

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, Peter Nero

Peter Nero

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, Eddie Fisher

Eddie Fisher (singer)

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, Merv Griffin

Merv Griffin

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, Jack Jones

Jack Jones (singer)

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, Ray Charles

Ray Charles

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, Barbara Mandrell

Barbara Mandrell

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, Paul Anka

Paul Anka

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, Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis

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, Steve Lawrence

Steve Lawrence

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, Eydie Gorme

Eydie Gormé

Eydie Gormé is an American singer, specializing, with her husband, Steve Lawrence, in traditional pop music, in the form of ballads and breezy swing. She has earned numerous awards, including the Grammy and the Emmy...

, Charo

Charo

María del Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Gutiérrez de los Perales Santa Ana Romanguera y de la Hinojosa Rasten , better known as Charo, is a Spanish-American actress, comedienne, and flamenco guitarist, best known for her flamboyant stage presence, her provocative outfits, and her trademark phrase...

, Lena Horne

Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the...

, Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....

, Helen Reddy

Helen Reddy

Helen Reddy , often referred to as "The Queen of 70s Pop", is an Australian-American singer and actress. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed fifteen singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six of those 15 songs made the Top 10...

, Donna Summer

Donna Summer

LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...

, Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...

, Dudley Moore

Dudley Moore

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, Julio Iglesias

Julio Iglesias

Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva , better known simply as Julio Iglesias, is a Spanish singer who has sold over 300 million records worldwide in 14 languages and released 77 albums. According to Sony Music Entertainment, he is one of the top 15 best selling music artists in history,...

, Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall

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 Christmas Show, (Oscar)Academy Awards

Academy Awards

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 and Grammy Awards, and others.

Phonograph recordings

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...

, Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

, Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...

, Andy Williams

Andy Williams

Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri,...

, Glen Campbell

Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...

, John Davidson

John Davidson (entertainer)

John Hamilton Davidson, Sr. is an American singer, actor and game show host known for hosting That's Incredible!, Time Machine, and Hollywood Squares in the 1980s, and a revival of The $100,000 Pyramid in 1991....

, Captain & Tennille

Captain & Tennille

Captain & Tennille are American pop music recording artists who achieved chart success from 1975 to 1980. The duo consists of husband and wife duo "Captain" Daryl Dragon , and Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille . They are best known for their singles "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Do That to Me...

, Tom Jones

Tom Jones (singer)

Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...

, Osmond Brothers, Donny & Marie

Donny & Marie

Donny & Marie may refer to two television shows hosted by Donny and Marie Osmond.* Donny & Marie , a variety show aired from 1976 to 1979* Donny & Marie , a talk show aired from 1998 to 2000...

, Neal Hefti

Neal Hefti

Neal Hefti was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, tune writer, and arranger. He was perhaps best known for composing the theme music for the Batman television series of the 1960s, and for scoring the 1968 film The Odd Couple and the subsequent TV series of the same name.He began arranging...

, Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione

Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good." Mangione has released more than thirty albums since 1960.-Early life and career:...

, Nelson Riddle

Nelson Riddle

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, Gladys Knight

Gladys Knight

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, Jackson Browne

Jackson Browne

Jackson Browne is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 17 million albums in the United States alone....

, Rita Coolidge

Rita Coolidge

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, Carole King

Carole King

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, etc.

Feature films

Capricorn One, Star Trek

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 1979 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the first film based on the Star Trek television series. The film is set in the twenty-third century, when a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud called V'Ger approaches the Earth,...

, Grease

Grease (film)

Grease is a 1978 American musical film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Warren Casey's and Jim Jacobs's 1971 musical of the same name about two lovers in a 1950s high school. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway...

, Rocky

Rocky

Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but kind-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

, New York, N.Y., A Star is Born

A Star Is Born (1976 film)

A Star Is Born is a 1976 American rock music musical film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline...

, King Kong

King Kong (1976 film)

King Kong is a 1976 American monster movie produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a remake of the 1933 classic film of the same name, about a giant ape that is captured and imported to New York City for exhibition....

, Hook, Blues Brothers, Robin and Marian

Robin and Marian

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, The Domino Principle

The Domino Principle

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, Centennial, Beau Geste

Beau Geste (1966 film)

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, The Buddy Holly Story

The Buddy Holly Story

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, Back to the Future

Back to the Future

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, The Muppet Movie

The Muppet Movie

The Muppet Movie is the first of a series of live-action musical feature films starring Jim Henson's Muppets. Released in 1979, the film was produced by Henson Associates, Children's Television Workshop and ITC Entertainment....

, Ordinary People

Ordinary People

Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of Robert Redford. It stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton....

, The Hindenburg

The Hindenburg (film)

The Hindenburg is a 1975 American film based on the disaster of the German airship Hindenburg. The film stars George C. Scott. It was produced and directed by Robert Wise, and was written by Nelson Gidding, Richard Levinson and William Link based on the book of the same name by Michael M. Mooney .A.A...

, The Greatest, Psycho II, Caddyshack

Caddyshack

Caddyshack is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis, and Douglas Kenney. It stars Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe, Cindy Morgan, and Bill Murray...

, Dynasty

Dynasty (TV series)

Dynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 11, 1989. It was created by Richard & Esther Shapiro and produced by Aaron Spelling, and revolved around the Carringtons, a wealthy oil family living in Denver, Colorado...

, A Small Town in Texas

A Small Town in Texas

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, Trial of Billy Jack

Billy Jack

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, Waiting to Exhale

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TV films

Columbo, Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie (TV series)

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, The Streets of San Francisco

The Streets of San Francisco

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, Undersea World, Quincy, M.E.

Quincy, M.E.

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, Hawaii Five-O

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, Marcus Welby, M.D.

Marcus Welby, M.D.

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, Name of the Game

Name of the Game

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, Ironside

Ironside (TV series)

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, Barnaby Jones

Barnaby Jones

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, Medical Center

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, Kojak

Kojak

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, The Six Million Dollar Man

The Six Million Dollar Man

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, The Bionic Woman

The Bionic Woman

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, Dallas

Dallas (TV series)

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, etc.

Musicals

Hello, Dolly!

Hello, Dolly! (musical)

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, Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...

, A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade...

, Chorus Line

Chorus line

A chorus line is a substantial group of dancers who together perform synchronized routines, usually in musical theatre. Sometimes, singing is also performed. Chorus line dancers in Broadway musicals and revues have been referred to by slang terms such as ponies, gypsies and twirlies...

, Promenade, Lorelei

Lorelei (musical)

Lorelei is a musical with a book by Kenny Solms and Gail Parent, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Jule Styne. It is a revision of the Joseph Fields-Anita Loos book for the 1949 production Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and includes many of the Jule Styne-Leo Robin songs written for...

, Irene, Gypsy, Evita, etc.