Joseph de Pasquale is an American violist

Viola

The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

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Joseph de Pasquale was a student of Louis Bailly, Max Aronoff and William Primrose

William Primrose

William Primrose CBE was a Scottish violist and teacher.-Biography:Primrose was born in Glasgow and studied violin initially. In 1919 he moved to study at the then Guildhall School of Music in London. On the urging of the accompanist Ivor Newton, Primrose moved to Belgium to study under Eugène...

 at the Curtis Institute of Music

Curtis Institute of Music

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. He was the principal violist

Violist

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 of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Boston Symphony Orchestra

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 from 1947 to 1964, and later the Philadelphia Orchestra

Philadelphia Orchestra

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. He performed and recorded with Angelin Chang

Angelin Chang

Angelin Chang is a Grammy® Award-winning classical pianist and professor of music at Cleveland State University. She heads the university's keyboard studies program and coordinates the university's chamber music program...

, Jascha Heifetz

Jascha Heifetz

Jascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :...

, Ruggiero Ricci

Ruggiero Ricci

Ruggiero Ricci is an Italian-American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini. He was born in San Bruno, California. Ricci's brother was cellist and his sister Emma played violin with the New York Metropolitan Opera.He is the son of Italian immigrants. His...

, Isaac Stern

Isaac Stern

Isaac Stern was a Ukrainian-born violinist. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.-Biography:Isaac Stern was born into a Jewish family in Kremenets, Ukraine. He was fourteen months old when his family moved to San Francisco...

, Gregor Piatigorsky

Gregor Piatigorsky

Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.-Early life:...

, and Anshel Brusilow among others. He also premiered several important compositions of the viola repertoire, including the Viola Concerto by Walter Piston

Walter Piston

Walter Hamor Piston Jr., , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter....

 and the Viola Sonata by George Rochberg

George Rochberg

George Rochberg was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Life:Rochberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended the Mannes College of Music, where his teachers included George Szell and Hans Weisse, and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Rosario Scalero and...

, and recorded for the RCA

RCA

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, Sony

Sony

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, Boston, Albany Records

Albany Records

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, and Decca

Decca Records

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 labels. As a pedagogue, Joseph de Pasquale raised a whole generation of prominent violists, among them Roberto Diaz

Roberto Diaz

Roberto Díaz was principal viola of the National Symphony under Mstislav Rostropovich, a member of the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa, and a member of the Minnesota Orchestra under Neville Marriner. In 1996 he became principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, a position he held until 2006...

, Stephen Wyrczynski, Viacheslav Dinerchtein

Viacheslav Dinerchtein

Viacheslav Dinerchtein , is a prominent violist, and an avid promoter of both novel and overlooked viola repertoire. His performances as a recitalist and a chamber musician have taken him to the prestigious venues, such as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Palacio de Bellas Artes...

, Cathy Basrak

Cathy Basrak

Cathy Basrak is one of the most prominent young violists today. She was a winner of several important viola competitions such as the 1995 Primrose International Viola Competition, Irving M. Klein Competition, and others. Basrak studied with Michael Tree, Joseph de Pasquale, and Roland and Almita...

. Currently, Joseph de Pasquale is Professor of Viola at the Curtis Institute of Music

Curtis Institute of Music

The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in Opera, and Professional Studies Certificate in Opera. According to statistics compiled by U.S...

 in Philadelphia.