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Stanley is a wonderfully delightful musician and human being!!!!!!! I have had the pleasure of performing both classical and jazz with him at IUP, where he is the backbone of the string department. He has an awful lot of musical and personal integrity. Besides that, he can play some mean solos!!!!!!!! I love the fact that he takes the time to shape a phrase, create a color, and allows his instincts to take over at the right times, whether it be an improvised or written line. His music seems to mimic his personality too, in that he is most instinctive, concious and patient while interacting. He absolutely enjoys music, and working with him is most fun and a genuine, natural experience.
Diane Monroe
violinist
Chepaitis and Spindler perform with the aplomb and profound musicianship of renowned violin and piano duos of my youth. Their performance of my first sonata was a brilliant occasion reminding me of the Szigeti-Levine premier. They are performers of the first order.
David Diamond
composer
The heartfelt, passionate reading of the Prokofiev Sonata is matched by the intensely personal expression in Stanley Chepaitis's original compositions. I found that the excellence in one genre gave credibility to the other methods of expression. I believe that as we prepare our students for musical life in the 21st Century this type of flexibility and diversity of approach is increasingly important.
Paul Kantor
Professor of Violin
Cleveland
Institute
Stan Chepaitis remains one of my favorite violinists. At home in a wide range of styles, Stan can break your heart with a lyrical passage or knock you socks off with some sizzling jazz. A violinist, conductor, composer and pedagogue, Stan can also elicit similar responses from YOUR STUDENTS through his innovative clinics where he applies his own jazz and improvising pedagogy. RUN, don't walk to engage Stan Chepaitis as a clinician for your students and teachers.
Sandra Dackow
Music Director,
Hershey Symphony Orchestra
Hershey PA
Stanley Chepaitis has an amazing mix of technical genius, love for the art of creating music, and compassion for his students and colleagues!
His teaching is solution driven, the results are fantastic!!
He is driven to revive the old tradition of artist and composer (a tradition threatened with extinction). His compositions and improvisations are breaking new ground. They are exciting, refreshing, and delightful!! His compositions are making a significant contribution to the new string literature available with numerous solo, chamber, and orchestral compositions.
Benjamin
K. Gish MM
Orchestra Director, Walla Walla Valley Academy
Artist Faculty Cellist, Walla Walla College
Assistant Principal Cellist, Walla Walla Symphony
Director of the Walla Walla Suzuki Institute
He composes in a style that combines traditional art with contemporary experiments, a "cross over" approach that Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, and Leonard Bernstein did in their own time."
Pleshakov Music Center
"Stanley Chepaitis is breaking new ground by expanding the exploration of the varied aspects of music and how, in the final analysis, there are common threads even at the farthest ends of the musical spectrum."
Charles
Treger
Professor of Violin
University of Massachusetts
I have followed the career of Stan Chepaitis for years and enjoy the dynamic, exciting and electric quality of his playing! He is also a committed educator, long championing the use of jazz for string players.
Bob Phillips
Bob and Pam Phillips
Alfred Publishing-Author/String Clinician
Phillips Family Fiddlers, Inc.
"Chepaitis performs with the grace of Grapelli, the sass of Vassar Clement and a whole hoedown of Euro-American folk fiddlers ghost his play."
Kitty Montgomery
Daily Freeman/Hudson Valley
"Technically impressive, rich in tone... His was a first class performance that would have been hailed on any stage in America."
- Jack Kantner/Bedford Gazette
"The evening was superb. The music was interesting throughout, the performance skillful and sensitive."
- Richard DeVinney/Grand Rapids Post
"Chepaitis is a national treasure who has yet to be recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, because a category encompassing the gonzo, musically omnivorous brilliance and beautific, introspective sensitivity of the man has yet to be invented."
- Kitty Montgomery, Daily Freeman/Hudson Valley
"To hear him play his Sonata....was to have no doubt of enormous techical facility and the panache to put it across."
- Scott Cantrell/Rochester Times Union
"...(Chepaitis') hands-on connection with his instrument must inspire kids to pick up a fiddle the way Michael Jordon inspires them to play basketball...."
- Kitty Montgomery, Daily Freeman/Hudson Valley
"Now in full maturity, Chepaitis, like his great predecessors Kreisler and Stern, us a unique one-of-a-kind artist."
- John Paul Keeler, Register-Star/Hudson Valley
"... A torrent loosed by violinist Stanley Chepaitis swept us away with no warning at all...."
- Kitty Montgomery, Daily Freeman/Hudson Valley