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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

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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