Peter Dimitriades

Peter Dimitriades was a violinist and freelance session musician of hundreds of recordings of Broadway musicals, soundtracks, jingles and commercials, as well as studio albums by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, the Backstreet Boys, Frankie Valli, Carly Simon, Stevie Nicks, Wynton Marsalis, Luther Vandross, Roberta Flack, Shirley Bassey, Herbie Mann and Chaka Khan, and many others. He attended Chicago Musical College as an Oliver Ditson scholar and earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees at the Manhattan School of Music. After serving as the principal second violinist for the Dallas Symphony, he moved to New York City in 1950 to become the assistant concertmaster at Radio City Musical Hall Orchestra. He also performed as concertmaster for the Little Orchestra Society, National Orchestra Association and the Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra for its 1956 tour of Europe and the Middle East. Along with being a member of the Classic String Quartet and the American String Quartet, he performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Musica Aeterna, Master Virtuosi of New York and the Symphony of the Air. Toured with Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra, from the 1950s all the way to Mr. Sinatra’s “80 Years My Way” final concert in 1995. Died: 2015-March-14