Dorothy DeLay - violin (1917-2002)
New York, New York, USA

• Juilliard School of Music

Dorothy DeLay was born in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. She received a B.A. from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, studied at Michigan State University and received the Artist Diploma from Juilliard Graduate School. She also has numerous honorary doctorates.

Influencing Teachers: Ivan Galamian.

Teaching:

• professor, Juilliard from 1948
• Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College from 1946
• Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music from 1974
• Summer
  • Meadowmount School of Music (1949-70)
  • Aspen Music School from 1971
• guest instructor worldwide

Master Classes regularly in Europe and North America.

Graduates include: Sarah Chang, Cho-Liang Lin, Anne Akiko Meyers, Midori, Itzhak Perlman, Robert McDuffie, Shlomo Mintz, Peter Oundjian, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Gil Shaham.

Performer:

• Solo, chamber
• Founder, Stuyvesant Trio (1939-42)

See Biography:

• Sand, Barbara Lourie. (2000). Teaching Genius: Dorothy Delay and the Making of a Musician. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press.

Updated April 9, 2002