Glenn Dicterow To Appear With Pegasus At Merkin Hall

Pegasus: The Orchestra will make their Merkin Hall debut on Saturday, November 23rd at 8pm led by conductor Karen Hakobyan. Glenn Dicterow, the legendary former concertmaster of New York Philharmonic, will join Pegasus concertmaster Eiko Kano for Bach's Double Violin Concerto. Opening the program will be the world premiere of Hakobyan's Contempo: Bach Recombinant and to close, Tchaikovsky's beloved Serenade for Strings.

Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 8pm
Merkin Hall
129 W. 67th Street,
New York, NY 10023
(212) 501-3330
Subway: 1 to 66th St./Lincoln Center; 2 & 3 to 72nd St.
Admission: $50-75/Students: $25/Seniors: $35 (only at the box office with ID)
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Program:

K. HAKOBYAN - Contempo: Bach Recombinant (World Premiere)
J. S. BACH - Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
P. I. TCHAIKOVSKY - Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48

Glenn Dicterow
Violinist Glenn Dicterow has established himself worldwide as one of the most prominent American concert artists of his generation.

Mr. Dicterow has enjoyed a storied career. The concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for 34 years, an all-time record in that major orchestral position, he became the first holder of the Robert Mann Chair in Strings and Chamber Music at the USC Thornton School of Music in 2013. He is also the Chairman of the Orchestral Performance Program at New York's Manhattan School of Music. More than ever before, Dicterow performs as a soloist with orchestras around the nation and beyond, while participating in musical festivals and chamber music, teaching in musical academies and leading masterclasses around the world, while adjudicating competitions, among a plethora of musical assignments in a "second act" easily as active as his much lauded years with the Philharmonic.

Glenn Dicterow first came to prominence at the age of 11, making his solo debut in Tchaikovsky's 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 André Kostelanetz.

Dicterow joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Associate Concertmaster in 1971, becoming Concertmaster there before turning 25. He came to New York as that orchestra's Concertmaster in 1980, while soloing annually with the Philharmonic in each of his 34 years. In that time, he served as the orchestra's "leader" (to use the British term) in collaboration with four very different music directors, Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel and Alan Gilbert

In a New York Philharmonic concert tour Dicterow was featured as the soloist in Leonard Bernstein's Serenade After Plato's Symposium, with Bernstein himself conducting. He performed the Waxman/Bizet Carmen Fantasy under Zubin Mehta as part of the New York Philharmonic's "Live From Lincoln Center" telecast, and he was a soloist in the orchestra's 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, China during the Philharmonic's 1998 tour of Asia.

His shelf of recordings is endless, as the Philharmonic's Concertmaster, in a large array of solo assignments, both of the great romantic concerti and of the 20th Century classics that he has championed, and in a wide range of chamber music. He has twice recorded Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade with the New York Philharmonic, once with Yuri Temirkanov conducting, once with Kurt Masur. He and his wife, violist Karen Dreyfus, have committed Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante to disc, 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.

"The Glenn Dicterow Collection," 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 Serenade, Kernis's Lament and Prayer, and John Williams's Theme From Schindler's List, among many highlights.

As a sidelight, Dicterow has also provided the violin solos for numerous Hollywood films, including such modern classics as The Turning Point, The Untouchables, Altered States, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Interview With the Vampire, among others.

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.

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. Beside his endowed chair at the USC-Thornton School and his innovative work in the Manhattan School's orchestral program, he is the leader of the String Leadership Program at Santa Barbara's Music Academy of the West, training new generations of concertmasters and principal second violinists.

Among his many honors, the Young Musicians Foundation, a Los Angeles institution which has spurred the careers of innumerable artists, honored Dicterow in February 2015 with its "Living the Legacy Award." It should be noted that in his early teens, Dicterow, who is now on the YMF Advisory Board, won that organization's Debut Concerto Competition in 1963.

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.

http://www.glenndicterow.com

Pegasus: the Orchestra
Pegasus: the Orchestra is a nonprofit professional orchestra with a mission to empower rising musicians with artistic freedom and promote innovative repertoire in an environment of creative thought and expression. Led by Karén Hakobyan, the orchestra brings together musicians and audiences of diverse backgrounds and cultural heritages by harnessing the power of music. Pegasus: the Orchestra is an ensemble with exclusive Yamaha sponsorship.

Pegasus: the Orchestra continues its residency at Mana Contemporary with a diverse third season of new and classic works, featuring orchestra, piano, jazz and chamber concerts with plans to expand to youth and world music series in the fall of 2019. In addition to its residency engagements, Pegasus recently performed a program of American music at the Friends of Music concert series in Stamford, NY on September 15, 2019, an event that illustrated a key aspect of its mission: to bring the sounds of a symphony hall to intimate spaces and locations where live music of a high caliber is rarely heard.  With a composer-arranger as founder, artistic director, and principal conductor, Pegasus often performs orchestral works in special arrangements by Karén Hakobyan. These are tailored for the Pegasus ensemble to take on the road and perform in all kinds of venues.  The ensemble’s versatility is one of its greatest strengths: compact and flexible, Pegasus performs music of all types of instrumentations, from duos to full orchestra. Pegasus’ chamber series, featuring its world-class principals, fulfills its mission to provide an artistic platform through performance opportunities. Several news outlets have showcased Pegasus, including Al Jazeera, Ardzagang Armenian TV, the Russian Television Network of America, The Voice of Armenians TV program on the NYC Life Channel, WGCH (Greenwich, CT) Talk Radio, WQXR New York Classical Radio, WSKG Radio and Get Classical’s online journal.

Upcoming performances include a debut at Merkin Concert Hall on November 23, 2019.  The concert will be conducted by Karén Hakobyan and features Glenn Dicterow, the legendary former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, and Pegasus’s own concertmaster, Eiko Kano, performing Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins, alongside works by Hakobyan and Tchaikovsky.  On March 14, 2020 at Mana Contemporary, 2007 Tchaikovsky International Competition Gold Medalist, cellist Sergey Antonov, and first prize winner of the 2018 Honens Competition, pianist Nicolas Namoradze, join Pegasus: the Orchestra to perform Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, and Schumann’s Introduction and Allegro Appassionato, Op. 92, respectively, with Karén Hakobyan as conductor. The second half will culminate with Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 7 conducted by Karén Hakobyan.  Pegasus will make its Lincoln Center debut at Alice Tully Hall on May 29, 2020, featuring the complete Rachmaninoff Piano Concerti performed by five pianists.

 Pegasus is passionate about fostering artistic freedom, creating performance opportunities, programming innovative repertoire, weaving a strong community fabric, advocating for the right to music education, and promoting humanity and equality.  To learn more about Pegasus, visit:

http://www.pegasustheorchestra.org