Dorothy DeLay

Dorothy DeLay ( born March 31, 1917 in Medicine Lodge, † March 24, 2002 in New York) was an American violin teacher.

Life and work

Your basic training gained Dorothy DeLay at the Oberlin Conservatory, her art degree at the Juilliard Graduate School. My most influential teacher was Ivan Galamian, whose later assistant and successor she was. Throughout her life, Dorothy DeLay received several honorary doctorates. She taught from 1946 at the Sarah Lawrence College, from 1948 at the Juilliard School of Music, and from 1974 at the College - Conservatory of Music Cincinnati. She was a guest lecturer for international master classes and even held as a soloist and as a chamber musician in the ensemble.

Among the former students who later became known DeLay include, among others Itzhak Perlman, Midori Gotō, Kolja Blacher, Sarah Chang, Cho - Liang Lin, Nadja Solerno -Sonnenberg, Nigel Kennedy, Mark Kaplan, Shlomo Mintz, Gil Shaham and William Fitzpatrick.

1994 awarded her U.S. President Bill Clinton at the White House National Arts Medal ( National Medal of Arts ), 1997, she received the highest award of Yale University. For her contributions to the Japanese music culture they honored Tennō ( Emperor ) Akihito, the Order of the Sacred Treasure.