Violinist, Glenn Dicterow, to Join USC Thornton Faculty

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<p>Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, Glenn Dicterow, will return to his native Los Angeles to join the faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music. He will be the first individual to hold the Robert Mann Endowed Chair of Violin and Chamber Music. Alfred Mann endowed the chair to honor the accomplishments of his brother, Robert.</p>

<p>In his early years Dicterow studied with the legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz when Heifetz was on the USC faculty. </p>

<p>Joining Mr. Dicterow at Thornton will be his wife, Karen Dreyfus, who teaches at the Manhattan School of Music. Both appointments will take affect in 2013.</p>

<p>Midori Goto holds the Jascha Heifetz Chair in Violin and is chair of the strings department at Thornton. Other artists in the strings department are cellist, Ralph Kirshbaum, holder of the Gregor Piatigorsky Chair in Violoncello; violinist Alice Schoenfeld, holder of the Eleanore Schoenfeld Endowed Chair in String Instruction; violinist Donald McInnis; bassist David Allen Moore and cellist Peter Stumpf among others.</p>

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<p>A 2012 addition to the faculty is Lady Susan Digby. She was the acting director of music at Queen’s College. Lady Digby was a Churchill Fellow, founder of the Voices Foundation and Fellow of the Royal Society of Artists. She will teach an undergraduate course on English choral literature with Nick Strimple of the Thornton Choral and Sacred Music department.</p>