{"id":40696,"date":"2025-09-03T07:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/?post_type=cmim-jury&p=40696"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:37:50","slug":"glenn-dicterow","status":"publish","type":"cmim-jury","link":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/jury\/glenn-dicterow\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dicterow"},"content":{"rendered":"HOME - CONCOURS 2026<\/span><\/a>\n

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Violinist Glenn Dicterow<\/strong> has established himself worldwide as one of the most prominent American concert artists of his generation.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for 34 years, an all-time record in that major orchestral position, Dicterow became the first holder of the Robert Mann Chair in Strings and Chamber Music at the USC Thornton School of Music in 2013. <\/span>In the Fall of 2022, he became the holder of the Jascha Heifetz Chair in Violin at USC. Dicterow performs as a soloist with orchestras in the US and internationally, while participating in musical festivals and chamber music, teaching in musical academies, and leading masterclasses around the world. He also adjudicates at competitions, among a plethora of musical assignments in a \u201csecond act\u201d as active as his much-lauded years with the Philharmonic.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Glenn Dicterow first came to prominence at the age of 11, making his solo debut in Tchaikovsky\u2019s Violin Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where his father, Harold Dicterow, served as principal of the second violin section for 52 years. He first appeared with the New York Philharmonic in 1967, at the age of 18, performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto under the baton of Andr\u00e9 Kostelanetz.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dicterow joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Associate Concertmaster in 1971, becoming Concertmaster before turning 25. He went on to become Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic in 1980, soloing annually with the Philharmonic in each of his 34 years. In that time, he served as the orchestra\u2019s \u201cleader\u201d (to use the British term) in collaboration with four very different music directors, Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, and Alan Gilbert.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a New York Philharmonic concert tour, Dicterow was the featured soloist in Leonard Bernstein\u2019s <\/span>Serenade after Plato\u2019s Symposium<\/span><\/i>, with Bernstein himself conducting. He performed the Waxman\/Bizet <\/span>Carmen Fantasy<\/span><\/i> under Zubin Mehta as part of the New York Philharmonic\u2019s \u201cLive From Lincoln Center\u201d telecast, and he was a soloist in the orchestra\u2019s 1982 concert at the White House. Another career highlight was his performance of the Barber Violin Concerto at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, during the Philharmonic\u2019s 1998 tour of Asia.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His shelf of recordings is endless, as the Philharmonic\u2019s Concertmaster, in a large array of solo works, both of the great romantic concerti and of the 20th<\/sup> Century classics that he has championed, and in a wide range of chamber music. He has twice recorded Rimsky-Korsakov\u2019s <\/span>Scheherazade<\/span><\/i> with the New York Philharmonic, once with Yuri Temirkanov conducting, and once with Kurt Masur. He and his wife, violist Karen Dreyfus, recorded Mozart\u2019s <\/span>Sinfonia Concertante<\/span><\/i>, alongside the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Carl St. Clair. He has recorded violin sonatas by such heroes of American music as Ives, Copland, Bernstein, and John Corigliano.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Glenn Dicterow Collection,\u201d a three-CD set on the New York Philharmonic label, surveys his career with the orchestra, in performances spanning thirty years, from 1982-2012, featuring his performances of concerti by Bruch, Bartok, Barber, Korngold, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Szymanowski, plus the Bernstein <\/span>Serenade<\/span><\/i>, Kernis\u2019s <\/span>Lament and Prayer<\/span><\/i>, and John Williams\u2019s <\/span>Theme From Schindler\u2019s List<\/span><\/i>, among many highlights.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dicterow has also provided the violin solos for numerous Hollywood films, including such modern classics as The Turning Point<\/em>, The Untouchables<\/em>, Altered States<\/em>, Beauty and the Beast<\/em>, Aladdin<\/em>, and Interview With the Vampire<\/em>, among others.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A graduate of the Juilliard School, where he was a student of Ivan Galamian, he also studied with Joachim Chassman, Naoum Blinder, Manuel Compinsky, Erno Neufeld, Gerald Vinci, Eudice Shapiro, Jascha Heifetz, and Henryk Szeryng.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, Dicterow is as committed to passing on the great musical legacy that spurred his own career as he once was in his orchestral duties. Along with his endowed chair at the USC-Thornton School and his innovative work in the Manhattan School\u2019s orchestral program, he is the leader of the String Leadership Program at Santa Barbara\u2019s Music Academy of the West, training new generations of concertmasters and principal second violinists.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Glenn Dicterow and his wife, Karen Dreyfus, are founding members of the Lyric Piano Quartet and the Amerigo Trio, performing, recording, teaching and proselytizing at leading festivals and musical institutions around the world.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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