Alan Iglitzin

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Alan Iglitzin (* 1931 in Harlem ) is an American violist and concert organizer.

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The son of a Russian-Jewish emigrant, learned the violin at the age of six; He completed his musical training at New York Performing Arts High School and Long Island University after failing to study analytical chemistry with the aim of taking over his father's pharmacy. After further studies at Hunter College and a degree from the University of Minnesota , he became a member of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in 1953 , to which he was an assistant principal violist for six years.

Since 1960 he was a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy . After six years, he and three other string players separated from the orchestra after they had founded the Philadelphia Quartet in the early 1960s ; from 1966 to 1986 it was the resident quartet of the University of Washington . With this string quartet there were also record releases. In 1984 he founded the Olympic Music Festival on the Olympic Peninsula in the north of the west coast of the USA . At Trillium Woods Farm , he has also organized the Concerts in the Barn every summer since 1985 , a chamber music festival with musicians such as the Carpe Diem String Quartet and the pianists David Korevaar and Cameron Bennett .

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SURNAME Iglitzin, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violist
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Harlem