Owen Dalby
violin

Owen Dalby has been described as a "fearless and inquisitive" instrumentalist by the San Francisco Classical Voice. Mr. Dalby was a top prizewinner at the 2007 Lyon International Chamber Music Competition, and is hailed for his gripping interpretations of music from across the stylistic spectrum. On both violin and viola, Mr. Dalby's varied career involves regular performances with the Orchestra of St Luke's, the early music Four Nations Ensemble, the Clarion Music Society, and the Grand Tour Orchestra, as well as with the Ikarus Chamber Players, Argento New Music Ensemble, Momenta Quartet, and the Hindemith Ensemble. Mr. Dalby's festival appearances include Yellow Barn, Norfolk, Music at Menlo, Kneisel Hall, Aspen, Summerscape at Bard, and the Gros Morne Chamber Music Festival in Newfoundland. He has performed as a soloist with the Albany Symphony, Boulder Bach Festival Orchestra, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, the Festival Orchestra of Sofia (Bulgaria), and on many occasions with the Yale Symphony Orchestra.

His chamber music partners have included Dawn Upshaw, the Persian kemancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor, Sir Simon Rattle, and many others. In the 2009-2010 season Mr. Dalby will perform Lou Harrison's Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra at Lincoln Center, give world premieres of major works by James Blachly and Timothy Andres (Look Around You, a solo concerto for violin and viola), perform chamber music from Hamburg to Honolulu, and will appear regularly at Carnegie Hall with Ensemble ACJW in chamber music and under the direction of composers Thomas Ads and John Adams. Mr. Dalby is a member of The Academy, a post-graduate leadership program of Carnegie Hall and the Juilliard School that links a performer's life with arts advocacy and a teaching residency in New York City pubic schools. He received early training at the Crowden School in California and Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Yale.