Anshel Brusilow

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Anshel Brusilow (born Anshel Brusilovsky on 14 August 1928) is an American conductor.

Anshel Brusilow began his violin study at the age of five and entered the Curtis Institute of Music when he was eleven. He attended the Philadelphia Musical Academy and at sixteen was the youngest conducting student ever accepted by Pierre Monteux. A winner of the prestigious Jacques Thibaud Marguerite Long Violin Competition in 1948, he performed as a soloist with numerous major orchestras in the United States. He subsequently served four years as associate concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra and seven years as concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra under famed conductor Eugene Ormandy. Some famous recordings to come from the orchestra during this time with Brusilow as soloist included Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Rimsky-Korsakow's Scheherazade, and Strauss's Ein Heldenleben.

During his time in Philadelphia, Brusilow founded the Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia and recorded several albums with the group under the RCA Music label. In 1970, Brusilow left Philadelphia for Dallas, TX where he was appointed executive director and conductor of the Dallas Symphony. He led the orchestra's first tours of Central and South America as well as started the pops series that the orchestra still uses to this day. The most notable recording from this period was the Dallas Sound, a pops music album featuring several arrangements by Bill Holcombe.

Anshel Brusilow has been Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of North Texas College of Music since 1973 as well as the Richardson Symphony Orchestra in Richardson, Texas, which he joined in 1989.