Biography

Lisa Vaupel
Department: Music Department
Title: Lecturer, Associate in Applied Music (violin)
Office: Kraushaar Auditorium
Phone: 410-337-6029
Email: lisa.vaupel@goucher.edu

Violinist Lisa Vaupel appears throughout the United States as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician.  Based in Baltimore, MD, Ms. Vaupel performs as Principal Second Violin of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Associate Concertmaster of Opera Delaware, and as a member of both the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and the Baltimore Opera Orchestra. She was appointed Assistant Concertmaster of the Charlotte (NC) Symphony Orchestra for the 2004-2005 season and has also performed with the Spoleto Festival in Italy, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, the American-Russian Youth Orchestra, and the Singapore Symphony. She regularly performs with the Key West Symphony during the year as well as Boulder’s Colorado Music Festival in the summer. In 2007 Ms. Vaupel appeared as soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with both the Frederick Symphony Orchestra and the Goucher Chamber Symphony.

Lisa Vaupel is a founding member of the dynamic Baltimore-based chamber ensemble, Gliss! Recent featured performances include appearances at the Colorado Music Festival Chamber Concert Series, Delaware Symphony Orchestra Chamber Series, Sequoia Chamber Workshop at Humboldt State University (Arcata, CA), Sundays at Three (Columbia, MD), Goucher College’s Yogurt Concerts, the Newark Library Chamber Series (DE), and the Tuesday Music Series at Old St. Paul’s (Baltimore, MD). As a firm believer in the importance of musical education, Ms. Vaupel also appears as the first violinist of the Live Wire String Quartet in elementary school curriculum-integrated performances in the greater Baltimore area. She received her Bachelor of Music degree with High Distinction from Indiana University, Bloomington, studying with Paul Biss, and earned her Master of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory, studying with Herbert Greenberg.  Ms. Vaupel serves on the music faculty of Goucher College in Towson, MD and enjoys teaching elementary through college level violin students.