Joseph de Pasquale is among the most highly respected authorities in the world of music. He is perhaps the most well known disciple of the legendary violist William Primrose (August 23, 1903 - May 1, 1982) was a Scottish violist and teacher, probably the best known viola player of his time. Primrose was born in Glasgow and studied violin there and, later, at the then Guildhall School of Music in London. From there he moved to Belgium to... William Primrose. For many years Joseph de Pasquale has been the principal violist of the two top orchestras: Boston Symphony and The Philadelphia Orchestra, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the United States major orchestras and one of the finest in the world. Since 2001, it has been based in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, having been based in the Philadelphia Academy of Music since it was founded... Philadelphia Orchestra. He has performed and recorded with numerous legendary collegues ( Jascha Heifetz (February 2, 1901 - December 10, 1987) was a violinist, often proclaimed as one of the greatest of all time and the most famous of the 20th century. Heifetz was born in Vilna in Lithuania. There is controversy over his birth year, which is sometimes put a year or... Jascha Heifetz, Ruggiero Ricci (born July 24, 1918) is an Italian-American violin virtuoso. Ricci has become famous in particular for his performances and recordings of Paganini. He was born in San Bruno, California, the son of Italian immigrants. It was his father who first taught him to play the violin. At... Ruggiero Ricci, Isaac Stern (July 21, 1920 - September 22, 2001) was a violinist, widely considered one of the finest of the twentieth century. Born in Kremenetz in Ukraine, he and his family moved to San Francisco when he was a year old. He had his first music lessons from his mother, and... Isaac Stern, Gregor Piatigorsky (April 17, 1903 – August 6, 1976) was a Russian cellist. He was born in Ekaterinoslav and studied violin and piano with his father as a child. After seeing and hearing the cello, he determined to become a cellist and constructed a play cello with two sticks. He... Gregor Piatigorsky among others). He has premiered several important compositions of the viola repertoire, and has recorded for the RCA, formerly an initialism for the Radio Corporation of America, is now a trademark used by two companies for products descended from that common ancestor: Thomson Consumer Electronics, which manufactures RCA-branded televisions, DVD players, video cassette recorders, direct broadcast satellite decoders, camcorders, audio equipment, telephones, and related accessories; and... RCA and the Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) (NYSE: SNE) is a consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita on May 7, 1946 as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering with about 20 employees. Their first consumer product, in the late 1940s, was a... Sony labels. Currently, Joseph de Pasquale is Professor of Viola at the The Curtis Institute of Music is a music school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was originally established in 1924 by Mary Louise Curtis Bok as a training ground for orchestral players to fill the ranks of the Philadelphia Orchestra, much like the Vienna Hochschule fur Musik and the Vienna Philharmonic. All... Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia - arguably, the most prestigious school of music in the world.