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  Recently retired as the Henri Temianka Professor of Violin at the Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music on the Chapman University campus. Professor Fitzpatrick is the Artistic Director of the MusiShare Young Artist Program. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he studied with Ms. Dorothy Delay and was an assistant to both Robert Mann and Claus Adam of the Juilliard String Quartet. Prior to his studies at the Juilliard School, he was a student of Stephen Clapp (former Dean Emeritus of The Juilliard School) at the Blair School of Music in Nashville, Tennessee.

  Prof. Fitzpatrick has taught many of today’s leading violinists and chamber musicians. His students have been accepted into programs at the Juilliard School, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory, the Indiana School of Music, the Mannes New School For Music, the Paris Conservatory, the Aspen Music Festival, the Meadowmount School of Music, to name but a few.  his books and videos have become very important additions to today’s world of violin pedagogy.

  From Founder and First Violinist of the New York String Quartet, to Director of Chamber Music at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, Bill’s musical experiences throughout Europe, Japan and the United States, have led him to positions such as Conductor of the Nashville Chamber and Symphony Orchestras to Founder and Conductor of “L’Ensemble des Deux Mondes” in France and collaborations with orchestras such as “l’Orchestre Symphonique de France” and as soloist with The American Symphony Orchestra in New York.

  Bill has performed and recorded with artists such as Gaby Casadesus, Elliot Fisk, Claude Frank, Itzhak Perlman, Emmanuel Ax, Ron Leonard, Patrice Fontanarosa, Karl Leister and the French actor Richard Bohringer (in the stage production “Coetse”). Mr. Fitzpatrick’s premiere performance of Albert Glinsky’s “Rhapsody “ for Violin solo and Orchestra, which was choreographed by Leslie-Jane Pessemier in a work called “Flights” for the Joffrey II ballet company, gave more than 100 performances all across the U.S., and Hong Kong. He has recorded for Jubal, CRI, Sine Qua Non and Delos record labels, as well as for the BBC, FR2, and other cable and network stations throughout the US and France.