Karen Tuttle

Karen Tuttle (born March 28, 1920 in Lewiston , Idaho , † December 16, 2010 in Philadelphia ) was an American violist and music teacher.

Tuttle took violin lessons when she was a child. She performed publicly at the age of fourteen and has appeared as a musician in Hollywood films. She later saw William Primrose , violist of the London Symphony Quartet, in a concert and decided to study viola with him at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She became his assistant in 1945 and, after leaving the Curtis Institute of Music in 1951, took over his chair, which she held until 1956.

In 1950 Tuttle took part in the Prades Festival in France, after which she was a regular guest at the Marlboro Festival . For several years she was a member of the Galimar String Quartet , later the Lithuanian violinist Alexander Schneider brought her to his Schneider String Quartet . With this she performed all of Joseph Haydn's string quartets in a twenty-one concert series in New York . A record of the works remained unfinished. She was also a member of the Gotham Quartet and has performed with famous soloists such as Isaac Stern , Yehudi Menuhin , Rudolf Serkin and Pablo Casals . She was one of the first women to appear with the NBC Symphony Orchestra and made her debut as a soloist in 1960 at Carnegie Hall with works by Ralph Vaughan Williams , Paul Hindemith , Johann Sebastian Bach and Johannes Brahms .

From 1971 Tuttle taught viola and chamber music at the Philadelphia Institute of Music and viola at the Peabody Institute . In 1978 she began to teach chamber music, and from 1986 also viola at the Curtis Institute . She gave courses at the Aspen Music Festival between 1979 and 1986 and taught at the Manhattan School of Music and the Mannes School from 1980 . From 1987 until her retirement in 2003 she was a teacher at the Juilliard School . Her students included Kim Kashkashian , Jeffrey Irvine, and Carol Rodland . Drawing on her lessons at Primrose, Tuttle developed a playing technique known as the Karen Tuttle Coordination Technique .

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SURNAME	Tuttle, Karen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American violist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	March 28, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lewiston, Idaho
DATE OF DEATH	December 16, 2010
Place of death	Philadelphia