Dorothy DeLay

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Dorothy DeLay (March 31, 1917 in Kansas – March 24, 2002 in New York) was an American violin instructor at the Juilliard School. Her pedagogy is considered revolutionary, and she is generally regarded as the most influential American violin teacher of the late 20th century.

[edit] Career and education

In addition to teaching at Juilliard, she taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and the New England Conservatory, among others. She started as an assistant to the great Russian teacher, Ivan Galamian, but later established her own distinguished reputation as a violin teacher. Delay attended the Oberlin Conservatory and Michigan State University, where she received her B.A. She went on to earn an Artist Diploma from Juilliard Graduate School.

She was also the founder of the Stuyvesant Trio (1939-42).

[edit] Teaching legacy

Her former students include many of the top violinists of the late 20th century, including Itzhak Perlman, Midori Goto, Sarah Chang, Cho-Liang Lin, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Nigel Kennedy, Mark Kaplan, Shlomo Mintz, and Gil Shaham, among others. She also taught many significant orchestral musicians and pedagogues, such as Simon Fischer, author of Basics, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Robert Chen, and Philadelphia Orchestra Concertmaster David Kim. Her students go on to solo careers, principal orchestra positions with the world's leading orchestras, and have gone on to win a majority of all the major violin competitions of the world.

In 1975 she was recognized by ASTA with their Artist Teacher Award. She founded the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation.

[edit] External links

• Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician biography by Barbara Lourie Sand
• Beloved violin teacher