MUSIC DIRECTOR, Joseph Glymph

A violinist, Maestro Glymph has been a member of the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, Assistant Concertmaster and Concertmaster of the Rockford Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Concertmaster of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and Concertmaster of the Northwest Symphony Orchestra. For eleven summers, he served as Guest Concertmaster of the Beloit Janesville Symphony Orchestra for their July 4th "Pops" series of concerts. He studied violin under the direction of Shmuel Ashkenasi and Pierre Menard of the famed Vermeer Quartet, Edgar Muenzer of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Adolph Ghertovici.
His conducting study has been with Crawford Gates, Margaret Hillis and Jon Robertson.

International Conducting

In August, 1989, Maestro Glymph made his Far East conducting debut in Taiwan and Japan while on tour with The Classical Symphony Orchestra to the Fifth International Youth Music Festival in Kumamoto, Japan to collaborate with other musical organizations from all over the world.

In August, 1994, he conducted The Central Opera Theater Orchestra
in Beijing, China in 2 concerts before 4,000 people.

In March, 1995, Maestro Glymph made his European conducting debut as a guest conductor of The Honored Symphonic Orchestra of The Ukraine State TV & Radio in Kiev, Ukraine.

In August, 1995, while on tour to China, he conducted joint concerts with The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and The Beijing Symphony Orchestra in 2 "standing-room-only" joint concerts with The Classical Symphony Orchestra and The Protégé Philharmonic in each city.

In August, 1997, Maestro Glymph delighted audiences when he conducted a "standing-room-only" concert with members of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Kiev, Ukraine.

Maestro Glymph appeared as Guest Conductor at the internationally renown
Sewanee Summer Music Center in Sewanee, Tennessee in July, 1998.

In August 1999, Maestro Glymph conducted a joint concert of The Classical Symphony Orchestra, The Protégé Philharmonic and The Beijing Symphony Orchestra in Beijing, China.

Education, Teaching, & Pedagogy

A graduate of Northern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance, further graduate studies and then completing all educational requirements for teaching, Maestro Glymph taught in the public schools as a high school orchestra director and then became a member and manager of The Arcturus String Quartet for several years.

For over a decade, he was a faculty member of the internationally renown Sewanee Summer Music Center in Sewanee, Tennessee. With former students in orchestras around the world, he has long been considered one of the most prominent private teachers of violin, viola, and cello in the Chicago area where he has been on the faculties of The American Conservatory of Music, North Park University and Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.

Joseph Glymph is the proud recipient of the "Lakeview Musical Society Service to Music Award" for 2001. Lakeview Musical Society, a long-time professional music club, gives an award each year to a person in the Chicago area that has exemplified outstanding work towards the dedication to promote classical music. Maestro Glymph was voted as the recipient of this prestigious award for 2001 in recognition of his excellent work with The Classical Symphony Orchestra and The Protégé Philharmonic.

Recognition & Accolades

The Classical Symphony Orchestra and The Protégé Philharmonic, 2 of the top Chicago youth orchestras, announce with great pride that its Music Director, Joseph Glymph, was chosen to be Northern Illinois University's Outstanding Alumnus for 2007.

Maestro Glymph has been listed in The International Who's Who in Music and The International Men of Achievement.

He was also nominated as Citizen Musician of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2010 for using his talent and passion for music to enhance the quality of life in the Chicago community.