Background
Lipsett was born in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Robert Lipsett
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He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music and later studied with Ivan Galamian at The Juilliard School and with Endre Granat.
Career
He holds the Jascha Heifetz Distinguished Violin Chair at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. He also serves on the faculty at the Aspen School of Music, the Colburn Conservatory and the Colburn Academy. He has given master classes at major schools around the world.
He has a younger brother named Stephen James Lipsett, a successful real estate investor/broker living on Lake Granbury, Texas.
As a child, he moved with his family to Dallas, Texas, where he began violin study with Zelman Brounoff and Ruth Lasley. The family subsequently lived in Saint Louis, Missouri, where Lipsett"s violin instructor was Melvin Ritter.
He also earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music from California State University, Northridge. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Teachers Award from the White House Commission for Presidential Scholars.
He is also a freelance commercial musician in motion pictures, television and the recording industry.
Achievements
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Lipsett"s students have consistently won important competitions including the Julius Stulberg Awards, the Yehudi Menuhin and Irving M. Klein International Violin Competitions, and several have received highest honors from the National Association for the Advancement of the Arts, and been recognized as Presidential Scholars. In 2004 Lipsett received the NFAA Coca-Cola Company Distinguished Teacher in the Arts Award.
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