
Glenn Dicterow
VIOLINIST
“… Mr. Dicterow plays with admirable elegance and utter fearlessness.”
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
NEW YORK TIMES
BIOGRAPHY
One of today’s most illustrious violinists, Glenn Dicterow is well known to audiences throughout Europe and North America, both as an orchestral soloist and a recitalist. He appears frequently throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, Korea, and China, with orchestras such as the Baltimore Symphony, Birmingham Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, London Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mexico City Symphony, Montreal Symphony, National Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Omaha Symphony, San Diego Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and the Shanghai Philharmonic, to name a few. Upcoming chamber music highlights include the California Institute of Chamber Music and the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth, as well as being the featured leader of the New Century Chamber Orchestra in San Francisco. Concerto engagements include a residency at the Texas Music Festival and a performance with the University of Southern California Symphony at Disney Hall in Los Angeles. Mr. Dicterow was the celebrated Concertmaster and featured soloist of the New York Philharmonic for thirty-four years. At the end of the 2013/2014 season, he retired and returned to California to take up a new position at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, where he was appointed to the newly created Robert Mann Endowed Chair in Violin and Chamber Music, honoring the life and work of the founder of the Juilliard String Quartet. Mr. Dicterow’s discography includes Copland’s Violin Sonata, Largo, and Piano Trio; Ives’s Sonatas numbers 2 and 4; and Korngold’s Piano Trio and Violin Sonata, all for EMI. Other recordings include Lee Holdridge’s Violin Concerto with the London Symphony, Shostakovitch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic on a Radiothon recording, and the Philharmonic’s two recordings of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade with Yuri Temirkanov on the BMG label and with Kurt Masur on the Teldec label. His most recent CD is a solo recital for Cala Records featuring Corigliano’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, Korngold’s Much ado About Nothing, the premiere recording of Leonard Bernstein’s Sonata and Martinu’s Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola. An active teacher, Glenn Dicterow serves on the faculties of The Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music. He and his wife, violist Karen Dreyfus, are founding members of The Lyric Piano Quartet and the Amerigo Trio. He is also a founding member of the Dicterow-DeMaine-Biegel Piano Trio, with esteemed colleagues Robert DeMaine and Jeffrey Biegel. A top prizewinner in many international competitions, Mr. Dicterow is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Ivan Galamian. Other teachers include Jascha Heifetz, Henryk Szerying, Manuel Compinsky, Eudice Shapiro, and Naoum Blinder.
RECORDINGS

Glenn Dicterow

PRESS ACCLAIM
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
“… Mr. Dicterow plays with admirable elegance and utter fearlessness …”
NEW YORK TIMES
SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY
“… Bruch’s brand of romanticism found the right interpreter in Dicterow. The celebrated soloist … treated the rhapsodic themes with such tender mastery …"
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY
“Dicterow, who has a pedigree unsurpassed among living violinists, gave a vital, vibrant performance of the [Rozsa Violin Concerto] that hardly lets the violinist come up for air … He attacked the finale vigorously, but played with as much precision as passion to earn a standing ovation.”
GRAND RAPIDS PRESS
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
“[Dicterow] rose brilliantly to passages of flashing virtuosity and … carried through the various moods effectively ..." [Bartók Concerto No. 2]
NEW YORK TIMES
SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (MA)
“Dicterow brought scrupulously beautiful tone and dramatic, expressive character to the technically demanding solo music [Bernstein Serenade]. He invested the lyrical melodies with elegant spin and sparkle, and tossed off the puckish prestos as if they were mere etudes …"
THE REPUBLICAN (Springfield, MA)
REPERTOIRE LIST
BACH
Concerti in A Minor and E Major
BARBER
Concerto
BARTÓK
Concerto
BEETHOVEN
Concerto
BERG
Concerto
BERNSTEIN
Serenade
BRAHMS
Concerto
Double Concerto
BRUCH
Concerto No. 1
CHAUSSON
Poème
HOLDRIDGE
Concerto
HUSA
Concerto
KERNIS
Lament and Prayer
MENDELSSOHN
Concerto
MENOTTI
Concerto
MOZART
Concerti Nos. 3 and 5
Sinfonia Concertante
PROKOFIEV
Concerto No. 2
RAVEL
Tzigane
RÓZSA
Sinfonia Concertante
SAINT-SAËNS
Concerto No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH
Concerto No. 1
SIBELIUS
Six Humoresques
SZYMANOWSKI
Concerto No. 1
WIENIAWSKI
Polonaise in D
Legende
Scherzo-Tarantella
DISCOGRAPHY
BERNSTEIN
Serenade
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
New York Philharmonic American Classics
BERNSTEIN Sonata
MARTINU Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola
KORNGOLD Four Pieces from Much Ado about Nothing
CORIGLIANO Sonata
with principal players from the New York Philharmonic
CALA
COPLAND
Sonata
Largo
Piano Trio
with Israela Margalit, piano
and Alan Stepansky, violoncello
EMI
GOETZ, Hermann
Complete Chamber Music
with Gerald Robbins, piano
with Alan de Veritch, viola;
with Terry King, violoncello
with Dennis Trembly, double bass
Genesis
HOLDRIDGE, Lee
Holdridge Conducts Holdridge Violin Concerto No. 2
London Symphony Orchestra
Lee Holdridge, conductor
Citadel
IVES
Piano Trio
Sonatas Nos. 2 and 4
Largo
with Israela Margalit, piano
with Alan Stepansky, violoncello
and Stanley Drucker, clarinet
EMI
KORNGOLD
Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 1
Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Major, Op 6
with Israela Margalit, piano
and Alan Stepansky, violoncello
EMI
McKINLEY, William Thomas
Concert Variations
with Karen Dreyfus, viola
Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra
Carl St. Clair, conductor
MMC Recordings
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Scheherazade
New York Philharmonic
Kurt Masur, conductor
Teldec
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Scheherazade
New York Philharmonic
Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
BMG/RCA Victor
SHOSTAKOVICH
Concerto No. 1
New York Philharmonic
Maxim Shostakovich, conductor
Radiothon
STRAUSS
Ein Heldenleben
New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta, conductor
Sony
STRAUSS/ TURINA
Piano Quartets Lyric Piano Quartet
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