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About Robert Lipsett
- Robert Crawford Lipsett Jr.
- (born October 23, 1947) is a violin teacher in Los Angeles, California.
- 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. Lipsett was born in Louisville, Kentucky.
- 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 graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music and later studied with Ivan Galamian at The Juilliard School and with Endre Granat.
- He also earned a B.A.
- in Music from California State University, Northridge.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.
- 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.
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