Four faculty appointments were recently announced by the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. Following 32 years as concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, GLENN DICTEROW will return to his hometown of Los Angeles next fall to assume the Robert Mann Chair in Strings and Chamber Music, a newly established post endowed by Alfred Mann in honor of his brother, founding first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet. Prior to joining the New York Philharmonic, Dicterow served as associate concertmaster and then concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he had made his solo debut at age eleven. Also joining the Thornton faculty in Fall 2013 will be PETER WEBSTER, who is currently director of the PhD program in music education at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music and will become a scholar in residence at Thornton. The school also announced two faculty appointments that took effect this fall: DANIEL CARLIN, who was named director of the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program after chairing a similar program at Boston’s Berklee College of Music; and KENNETH FOSTER, formerly executive director of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and now director of Thornton’s new graduate program in arts leadership.
Posted November 5, 2012
