Famed American violin teacher Dorothy DeLay was born on this day in 1917.
She is remembered as one of the most respected violin pedagogues of the 20th Century – her students including noted virtuosi Itzhak Perlman, Sarah Chang, Midori, Gil Shaham, Nigel Kennedy, Shlomo Mintz, Cho-Liang Lin, Akiko Suwanai, Philippe Quint and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg.
