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Joseph Glymph Music Director The Classical Symphony Orchestra and The Protégé Philharmonic |
| 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.
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. The
Classical Symphony Orchestra and The Protégé
Philharmonic announce with great pride that its Music Director,
Joseph Glymph, has been 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. |
His
conducting study has been with Crawford Gates, Margaret Hillis and
Jon Robertson. 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.
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 and North
Park University and is currently a faculty member at Northeastern
Illinois University in Chicago.