Anshel Brusilow began his violin study at the age of five and entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age eleven. He attended the Philadelphia Musical Academy and at sixteen was the youngest conducting student ever accepted by Pierre Monteux. A winner of the prestigious Jacques Thibaud Marguerite Long Violin Competition in 1948, he performed as a soloist with numerous major orchestras in the United States. He subsequently served four years as associate concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra and seven years as concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
In 1970, Mr. Brusilow was appointed executive director and conductor of the Dallas Symphony and led the orchestra's first tours of Central and South America. Anshel Brusilow has been conductor of the Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra at the College of Music since 1989 as well as the Richardson Symphony Orchestra in Richardson, Texas.
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