Vilem sokol biography

Vilem Sokol (May 22, 1915 – August 19, 2011) was a Czech-American conductor and professor of music at the University of Washington from 1948 to 1985,^[1] where he taught violin, viola, conducting, as well as music appreciation classes directed primarily toward non-music majors.

Vilem sokol biography

He was conductor of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras from 1960 to 1988,^[2][3] and principal violist of the Seattle Symphony from 1959 to 1963. He was the featured soloist with the Seattle Symphony for subscription concerts held March 7 and 8, 1960, performing Harold in Italy by Hector Berlioz.^[4][5]

Sokol was raised in Ambridge, Pennsylvania.

At the age of 16, he studied with Otakar Ševčík in Boston. He received a bachelor's degree in music from Oberlin College in 1938, where he studied violin with Raymond Cerf, and studied for one year on scholarship with Jaroslav Kocián at the State Conservatory of Music in Prague.

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