Dale Barltrop

Hailing from Brisbane, Dale Barltrop has performed across North America, Europe and Australia. Dale was recently appointed Concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in Canada and will perform the Schumann Violin Concerto and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with them in the 2010-11season.

For seven years, Dale served as Principal Second Violin of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in the US. During this time, he appeared regularly as soloist with the SPCO, including a series of baroque concerts under his direction and a performance of his own orchestration of Schubert’s Rondo in B minor. Dale joined the Australian Chamber Orchestra in August 2010 for their tour of the US and Europe. He has performed at numerous festivals across the United States, including the Mainly Mozart, Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall, Swannanona, Mozaic, Music in the Vineyards and Tanglewood music festivals, as well as the New York String Orchestra Seminar.

As a soloist, Dale has performed with the Bloomington Symphony, Maryland Chamber Orchestra, University of Maryland Symphony and back home with the Queensland Orchestra and Queensland Pops Orchestra. He served as Associate Concertmaster of the Akron Symphony Orchestra in Ohio and 1^st violinist of the Verklärte Quartet, which won the grand prize at the 2003 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.

A former concertmaster of the Australian and Queensland Youth Orchestras, Dale began his studies in Brisbane with Marcia Cox and later studied with Elizabeth Morgan. He moved to the US in 1998 to attend the University of Maryland as a student of Gerald Fischbach and the Guarneri Quartet. He continued his studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with William Preucil. Dale has served on the faculty of the National Orchestral Institute in Maryland and coached regularly for the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies in Minnesota.