Joseph de Pasquale

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Joseph de Pasquale is an American violist born in 1919. He was a student of William Primrose at the Curtis Institute of Music. For many years Joseph de Pasquale was the principal violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and later the Philadelphia Orchestra. He performed and recorded with Jascha Heifetz, Ruggiero Ricci, Isaac Stern, Gregor Piatigorsky, and Anshel Brusilow among others. He also premiered several important compositions of the viola repertoire, including the Viola Concerto by Walter Piston, and recorded for the RCA, Sony, Boston, Albany, and Decca labels. Currently, Joseph de Pasquale is Professor of Viola at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.