New York Philharmonic Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow has established himself worldwide as one of the most prominent American concert artists of his generation. His extraordinary musical gifts became apparent when, at age 11, he made 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). In the following years, Mr. Dicterow became one of the most sought-after young artists, appearing as soloist from coast to coast.

Mr. Dicterow went on to win numerous awards and competitions, including the Young Musicians Foundation Award and Coleman Award (Los Angeles), The Julia Klumpke Award (San Francisco), and the Bronze Medal in the International Tchaikovsky Competition (1970). He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Ivan Galamian. Other teachers have included Erno Neufeld, Eudice Shapiro, Naoum Blinder, Manuel Compinsky, Jascha Heifetz, and Henryk Szeryng.

In 1967 he appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Andre Kostelanetz in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. He was then 18 years old. In 1980 he joined the Orchestra as Concertmaster and has since performed as soloist every year. Prior to joining the New York Philharmonic, Mr. Dicterow served as Associate Concertmaster and Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. During a New York Philharmonic tour of major American cities in 1986, Mr. Dicterow was featured in Leonard Bernstein's Serenade with the composer conducting, and in 1990 played The Carmen Fantasy under the direction of Zubin Mehta in a Live From Lincoln Center concert telecast. In addition, he was a soloist in the Orchestra's 1982 concert at the White House.

Over the past few seasons Mr. Dicterow has been the featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic in concertos by Prokofiev, Menotti, Rozsa, Korngold, Barber, Mozart, Brahms, Bruch, Aaron Kernis, Szymanowski, Bartok and Karel Husa under the batons of conductors Yuri Temirkanov, Kurt Masur, Andre Previn , Christian Thielemann, Colin Davis, David Robertson Lorin Maazel and Alan Gilbert. During the Philharmonic's 1998 Asian Tour, he was soloist in the Barber Violin Concerto in Manila, Korea, and in Beijing, China, where he performed in The Great Hall of the People to an audience of more than 10,000 people.

Mr. Dicterow has also been a guest soloist with the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Birmingham, Chautauqua, Grant Park, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, London (LSO), Mexico City, Miami, Montreal, Omaha, San Francisco, San Diego and Washington, D.C. to name a few. More recent engagements have included solo concerts with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Bernstein Serenade with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in "Isaac Stern at Eighty: A Birthday Celebration" at Carnegie Hall.

In season 11/12 Mr. Dicterow soloed with the New York Philharmonic in New York and on tour in San Francisco performing Bartok's First Violin Concerto. In season 12/13 he will perform the Brahms Double with the Philharmonic and Kurt Masur.

Mr. Dicterow's discography includes Copland's Violin Sonata, Largo, and Piano Trio; Ives's Sonatas Nos. 2 and 4 and Piano Trio; and Korngold's Piano Trio and Violin Sonata, all for EMI. He is also featured in the violin solos in Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben and Also sprach Zarathustra with Zubin Mehta for CBS. Other compositions committed to disc are works of Wieniawski with Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Lee Holdridge's Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Holdridge conducting; Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Maxim Shostakovich on a Radiothon recording; and the Philharmonic's recording of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade with Yuri Temirkanov on the BMG label. Mr. Dicterow's most recent CD is a solo recital for Cala Records entitled New York Legends, featuring John Corigliano's Sonata for Violin and Piano, Korngold's Much Ado About Nothing, the premiere recording of Leonard Bernstein's Sonata for Violin and Piano, and Martinu's Three Madrigals for violin and viola, in collaboration with violist Karen Dreyfus and pianist Gerald Robbins. His latest CD releases include the Dvorak Piano Trio and the Dvorak Piano Quartet in E Flat Major on Bridge Records and the Mozart Sinfonie Concertante with violist Karen Dreyfus and the Warsaw Philharmonic, available Navona Records.

Mr. Dicterow can also be heard in the violin solos of the film scores for The Turning Point, The Untouchables, Altered States, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and Interview with the Vampire, among others.

Mr. Dicterow enjoys an active teaching career. He is on the faculty of The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and USC Thornton School of Music. He and his wife, violist Karen Dreyfus, are founding members of The Lyric Piano Quartet and The Amerigo Trio.