Kathleen Parlow

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Kathleen Parlow (1905)

Kathleen Parlow (born September 20, 1890 in Calgary , † August 11, 1963 in Oakville ) was a Canadian violinist and music teacher.

Life

Parlow's mother, who played the violin herself, brought her to San Francisco at the age of four, where she first had lessons from her cousin Conrad Coward , and later from the Englishman Henry Holmes , a student of Louis Spohr . She gave her first concert at the age of six.

In 1905 Holmes made a trip to London possible for her, where she performed Beethoven's violin concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and met the violinist Mischa Elman of the same age . In order to continue her training with his teacher Leopold von Auer , she traveled to Saint Petersburg with financial support from a foundation of Lord Strathcona , where she was the first foreign student to be accepted at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory .

During this time she got to know Alexander Glasunov's violin concerto, which she added to her repertoire, gave nine concerts in Saint Petersburg, performed with the Helsinki Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Robert Kajanus and got to know Jean Sibelius . With her debut in Berlin in 1907, she began her extensive concert tours as a violin virtuoso through Europe, and in the summer she continued her lessons with von Auer. In 1908 she met Einar Björnson in Norway , who became her patron and provided her with the Viotti , a famous instrument made by the violin maker Guarneri .

1910–1911 Parlow undertook a concert tour through the USA and Canada, during which she a. a. performed with the New York Symphony Orchestra under Walter Damrosch . She then returned to England and settled in Meldreth near Cambridge. From here she went on concert tours through North America, where she first appeared with the pianist Ernesto Consolo in 1912 and had her first radio appearance in 1920, and through Europe. In the 1920s she entered a. a. in Honolulu, Japan, Singapore and China, Java and the Philippines.

Parlow left Europe in 1926 and lived in San Francisco until 1936 and in New York until 1940. After a nervous breakdown in 1927, she largely gave up her concert activities - with the exception of a farewell tour in Mexico in 1929. She taught at Mills College in Oakland from 1929 to 1936 , gave summer courses in Pittsfield from 1935 to 1941 and founded the South Mountain Quartet there .

After a series of concerts in Toronto from 1939 to 1940, Parlow was given a teaching position at the Toronto Conservatory of Music . She performed here as a chamber musician in a duo with Ernest MacMillan , Leo Barkin and later Mario Bernardi and with the Canadian Trio (with Ernest MacMillan and Zara Nelsova ) and founded the Parlow String Quartet . From 1959 she taught at the Conservatory of London (Ontario).

Parlow's numerous students included Andrew Benac , Charles Dobias , Victor Feldbrill , Sydney Humphreys , Gerhard Kander , Morry Kernerman , John Montague , Joseph Pach , Rowland Pack , James Pataki , Clara Schranz and Erica Zentner, and in the US Marilyn Doty , Marjorie Edwards and Miriam Solovieff . After her death, the University of Toronto donated a Kathleen Parlow Scholarship. In 1982, the CBC broadcast a three-part documentary about her life entitled Kathleen Parlow, a virtuoso's life .

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