Karen Iglitzin
Karen Cecile Iglitzin (born 24 December 1957) is an American violinist, chamber music player and educator. She was the first violinist of the Philadelphia String Quartet, and a faculty member at Western Washington University.
Early life and education
Karen Cecile Iglitzin is the daughter of viola player Alan Iglitzin,[1] and was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She began studying the violin aged 8, with Veda Reynolds, the first violinist of the Philadelphia String Quartet.[2] She received her Bachelor of Music at Indiana University, studying with Josef Gingold.[3] Iglitzin received her Masters of Music at Yale School of Music in 1982, studying with Joseph Silverstein. She spent three years at the Tanglewood Music Center where she was awarded the Josef Silverstein prize.[4][5]
Career
Iglitzin joined the Philadelphia String Quartet as first violinist in 1984. Early in her tenure with the quartet, a reviewer wrote: "Karen Iglitzin ... is a young, intelligent, enthusiastic, active, can't-sit-still performer varying from exciting and insightful to near disastrous."[6] The quartet performed widely and held residencies at colleges around the Pacific Northwest.[7] In 1985 they spent six weeks touring India. The quartet played a series at Meany Hall at the University of Washington, featuring eight concerts each year, starting in the 1981-1982 season.[8] Iglitzin left the quartet after four years.[9]
She co-founded the Olympic Music Festival "Concerts-in-the-Barn" near Port Hadlock, WA. [10] Ms. Iglitzin founded and directed the Chamber Music Institute, which hosted years of chamber music camps for teenagers.
In 1986, Ms. Iglitzin joined the faculty as head of strings at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. [11] Iglitzin founded the WWU Preparatory Music Program for area students to have a program on Saturdays. and for college music students to have training as teachers.[12]
In 1996, after receiving tenure from WWU, she took a leave of absence and spent it in the Shandong Province in China. [1] She was a guest music professor at Qufu Teachers University for the 1997-1998 year.
She was named "Teacher-of-the-Year" by the Washington State division of the American String Teachers Association. (1999) Iglitzin was also chosen by Chamber Music America as a national winner of the Heidi Castleman Award for Excellence in Chamber Music Teaching (2001). [13]
Moving to Seattle, she established a non-profit organization, Chamber Music Madness, that provided chamber music workshops and camps for young people from around the Puget Sound Area.[14] In 2010 Iglitzin left to establish a chamber music teaching studio.
Ms. Iglitzin has written articles including for the American String Teacher: Teaching with Interpreters in China 1988; [15] for Chamber Music America: Chamber Music Coaching Ideas for Starting Out [16] ; for the Strad Magazine, Fiddling on the Yangtze, August,1999.[2]
References
- ↑ Brinkley, Pam (April 30, 1986). "Chamber musicians compare notes with students". The Oregonian. Portland, Oregon. p. 3. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
- ↑ Connell, Joan (January 4, 1985). "Philadelphia String Quartet". The Bellingham Herald. Bellingham, Washington. p. 4C. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
- ↑ chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://mabel.wwu.edu/do/10071/iiif/828e19c9-1892-4691-b59f-cdbfaf28bf79/full/full/0/wfhc_1987_1110_Western-Front---1987-November-10.15732.pdf
- ↑ Boston Symphony Orchestra. Tanglewood Music Center yearbook, 1980. Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives. Lenox, Mass. : Boston Symphony Orchestra. Search this book on
- ↑ "Performance History Search". archives.bso.org. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ↑ Baker, Gary (October 18, 1985). "Gary chalks this one up to an off night for Philadelphia String Quartet". Seattle Gay News. Seattle, Washington. p. 22. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
- ↑ Josephine, Emmons (May 1986). "The Philadelphia Quartet comes to Ferndale". The American String Teacher. 35 (2). doi:10.1177/000313138603600219.
- ↑ "Performance Archive". Meany Center. 2013-08-23. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
- ↑ Stark, Gail (March 14, 1990). "Violinist concentrates on next generation". The Bellingham Herald. Bellingham, Washington. p. 17. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
- ↑ "History". Concerts in the Barn Quilcene, WA. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ↑ "For the love of music: Performer turned teacher puts the emphasis on fun | The Seattle Times". archive.seattletimes.com. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ↑ "Music teacher with pioneer spirit recognized | Queen Anne & Magnolia News". queenannenews.com. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ↑ "Mystery Moment: Chamber Music Madness with Violinist Karen Iglitzin by Keeping Cup with Ariana". Spotify for Podcasters. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ↑ "About". Chamber Music Guild. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ↑ Iglitzin, Karen (08-01-1998). "Teaching with Interpreters (in China)". The American String Teacher. 48 (3): 48–53. doi:10.1177/000313139804800308. ISSN 0003-1313. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Iglitzin, Karen; Castleman, Heidi (February 1994). "Coaching Chamber Music Ideas for Starting Out". American String Teacher. 44 (1): 66–68. doi:10.1177/000313139404400119. ISSN 0003-1313.
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