Clayton Stephenson Biography

CLAYTON STEPHENSON

NAMED THE 2017 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR IN THE ARTS, LANG LANG MUSIC FOUNDATION YOUNG SCHOLAR, ENCORE ARTIST CLAYTON STEPHENSON WAS ADMITTED INTO THE JUILLIARD PRE-COLLEGE AT AGE TEN.

Stephenson is also prize winner of the 2016 Cooper International Competition and 2015 Van Cliburn Junior International Competition. Stephenson is a proud recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke scholarship.

Highlights of Stephenson's burgeoning career include recitals at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, the Kissinger Sommer Festival in Beethoven Fest Bad Kissinger, Beethoven Fest in Bonn, Star and Rising Star in Munich, and at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Stephenson’s orchestral performances include Chicago Sinfonietta Season Opening Concert at Chicago’s Symphony Center, the Colour of Music Festival Gala Concert at Charleston Gaillard Center, the Midwest Young Artists Symphony at the Ravinia Festival and Chicago’s Millennium Park Pritzker Pavilion, and with the International Youth Orchestra at the United Nations General Assembly Hall on the 69th U.N. Day. Stephenson appeared at “Grammy Salute to Classical Music” Concert, Carnegie Stern Auditorium.

Clayton Stephenson has participated in master classes with John Perry, Julian Martin, Krzusztof Jablonski, André Laplante, Mark Durand, Lee Kum-Sing, and Frank Levy, among others.

Fluent in the Mandarin Chinese language, Stephenson's extra curricular study is Jazz at the Boys’ Club of New York and he devotes himself to sharing his knowledge and good fortune with underprivileged children in East Harlem.