John Dembeck

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John Dembeck (born 1914 in New York City , † March 14, 1993 in Toronto ) was a Canadian violinist and violist from the USA.

Dembeck had violin lessons from the age of six and studied at the Juilliard School . He made his debut in New York's Town Hall in 1937 and appeared in the following years as a chamber musician, soloist with symphony orchestras and on the radio as soloist and concertmaster of the Friends of Music series in Connecticut.

In 1940 Dembeck moved to Toronto. Here he played the first violins of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (1941–48 and 1957–61) and was concertmaster of the Promenade Symphony Concerts (1945) and the CBC Symphony Orchestra (1952–53). With the Toronto Symphony Orchestra he recorded Alexander Brott's Violin Concerto in 1952 . From 1943 to 1945 he was violist of the Parlow String Quartet (with Kathleen Parlow , Samuel Hersenhoren and Isaac Mamott ). In 1950 he founded the Dembeck String Quartet (with Stanley Kolt , Robert Warburton - later Ross Lechow and Jack Neilson - and Cornelius Ysselstyn - later Rowland Pack ), which he directed until 1961. He then performed as a violin soloist and in a duo with his wife, the pianist Anna Drake Dembeck , until he retired in 1990.

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SURNAME Dembeck, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian violinist and violist
DATE OF BIRTH 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1993
Place of death Toronto