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 Program Chair, Orchestra Performance Program
Dicterow is a faculty member in the College for the following department(s) and division(s):
| Telephone | (212) 749-2802 x7666 | | E-mail | dicterow@aol.com |
| | | Violinist Glenn Dicterow has established himself worldwide as one of the most prominent American concert artists of his generation. His extraordinary musical gifts became apparent at the age of eleven, when he made his solo debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (where his father, Harold Dicterow, served as principal of the second violin section for 52 years) in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. In the following years, Mr. Dicterow became one of the most sought-after young artists, appearing as soloist from coast to coast. Mr. Dicterow went on to win numerous awards and competitions including the Young Musicians Foundation Award and Coleman Award (Los Angeles), The Julia Klumpke Award (San Francisco), and the bronze medal in the International Tchaikovsky Competition (1970). He is a graduate of Juilliard, where he was a student of Ivan Galamian. Other teachers have included Joachim Chassman, Naoum Blinder, Manuel Compinsky, Jascha Heifetz, and Henryk Szerying.
In 1967, at the age of eighteen, he appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of André Kostelanetz in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. In 1980 he joined the orchestra as concertmaster and has since performed as its soloist every year. Prior to joining the Philharmonic, Mr. Dicterow served as associate concertmaster and concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. During a New York Philharmonic tour of major American cities in 1986, Mr. Dicterow was featured in Leonard Bernstein's Serenade with the composer conducting and in 1990 played the Carmen Fantasy under the direction of Zubin Mehta in a Live From Lincoln Center telecast. In addition, he was a soloist in the orchestra's 1982 concert at the White House.
Over the past few seasons Mr. Dicterow has been the featured soloist with the Philharmonic in Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto with guest conductor Yuri Temirkanov, the Menotti concerto under the direction of Kurt Masur, and the Bruch concerto with Christian Thielemann conducting. During the Philharmonic’s 1998 Asia tour, Mr. Dicterow was soloist in the Barber Violin Concerto in Manila, Korea, and Beijing, where he performed in the Great Hall of the People with an audience of over 10,000. In the 2000–2001 season, Mr. Dicterow performed the Brahms Double Concerto for with Maestro Masur and principal cellist Carter Brey.
Mr. Dicterow has also been a guest soloist with the symphony orchestras of Los Angeles, Baltimore, Birmingham, Chautauqua, Grant Park, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Mexico City, Miami, Montreal, Omaha, and Tampa, to name a few. Recent engagements have included solo concerts with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Monterey Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and a performance of the Bernstein Serenade with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in the “Isaac Stern at Eighty: A Birthday Celebration” at Carnegie Hall. Dicterow has been the soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, and the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Alabama and has been the featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic in Bernstein’s Serenade on tour in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Mr. Dicterow's discography includes Copland's Violin Sonata, Largo, and Piano Trio; Ives's Sonatas nos. 2 and 4 and Piano Trio; and Korngold's Piano Trio and Violin Sonata, all for EMI. He is also featured in the violin solos in Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben and Also sprach Zarathustra with Zubin Mehta and CBS. Other compositions committed to disc are works of Wieniawski with Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Lee Holdridge's Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and the composer conducting, Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Maxim Shostakovich on a Radiothon recording, and the Philharmonic's recording of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade with Yuri Temirkanov o |
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