USC Trojan Family Magazine - Winter 1998: The Lipsett Proteges: Elisa Barton '91

ELISA BARTON landed in St. Louis two years ago in the midst of a varied career that has taken her around the world. She’s now associate concertmaster with the St. Louis Symphony, occasional soloist with the orchestra, and first violin with a string quartet comprised of orchestra members. She has won top prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition and appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony and the English Chamber Orchestra. Strad magazine once applauded her “glowing sound, tasteful phrasing and technical aplomb,” and the Chicago Sun-Times wrote of her “big, richly colored tone.”
A native of Evanston, Ill., Barston first worked with Robert Lipsett as a high school student at the Encore School for Strings in Ohio, a summer program. “He’s without question the most dedicated teacher the world will ever see,” she says. “His whole life is his teaching. He’s a brilliant technician, and he knows how to get through to all kinds of students.” A Lipsett-trained violinist is “technically clean, flashy, elegant,” she says. “It’s the Lipsett trademark.”




			ELISA BARTON landed in St. Louis two years ago in the midst of a varied career that has taken her around the world. She’s now associate concertmaster with the St. Louis Symphony, occasional soloist with the orchestra, and first violin with a string quartet comprised of orchestra members. She has won top prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition and appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony and the English Chamber Orchestra. Strad magazine once applauded her “glowing sound, tasteful phrasing and technical aplomb,” and the Chicago Sun-Times wrote of her “big, richly colored tone.” A native of Evanston, Ill., Barston first worked with Robert Lipsett as a high school student at the Encore School for Strings in Ohio, a summer program. “He’s without question the most dedicated teacher the world will ever see,” she says. “His whole life is his teaching. He’s a brilliant technician, and he knows how to get through to all kinds of students.” A Lipsett-trained violinist is “technically clean, flashy, elegant,” she says. “It’s the Lipsett trademark.”
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