Stephanie Vial Aspinwall

Stephanie Vial Aspinwall is Instructor of Music at Duke University, specializing in cello performance and pedagogy. Her academic credentials include a DMA from Cornell University and performance degrees from Northwestern University and Indiana University. She maintains an active teaching studio focused on instrumental technique and historical performance practices.

Research centers on 18th-century performance practice, notably documented in her monograph analyzing phrasing conventions in Classical-era music. This work examines rhetorical punctuation models in historical treatises and their application to contemporary performance decisions.

Teaching includes applied cello instruction across undergraduate and graduate levels. Professional activities combine performance with musicological research into historical interpretation, particularly regarding articulation and expressive devices in late-Baroque and Classical repertoires.