Cyrus Forough
Violin
Professional Associations
Carnegie Mellon University, Roosevelt University and the Chicago Music Institute
Qualifications
- Three years at the Moscow Studied with David Oistrakh and Oleh Krysa the 3rd year Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the legendary violinist David Oistrakh.
- Indiana University School of Music where he studied with Josef Gingold.
- Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
- Artist Teacher at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts.
- Faculty member of the Chicago Institute of Music.
- A Laureate of the Tchaikovsky International Competition.
Background & Experience
Cyrus Forough’s precollege and college students have won numerous 1st prizes and a multitude of other prizes and awards in local, national and international competitions such as at the Sibelius, Indianapolis, Menuhin, Sarasate, Szering, Vladigierov, Washington International, Stulberg, Klein, Illinois Bell, Schadt, Corpus Christi, Fischoff and many others including in the Chicago area. His philosophy of teaching for any age student is to develop strong instrumental technique combined with a heuristic and musical approach. As he says, “We must sing every note, every phrase. One’s playing must speak and be meaningful.” His teachers were his mother, Arthur Grumiaux at age 9 in Brussels, David Oistrakh and Oleh Krysa in Moscow and Josef Gingold at Indiana University. For further information please visit his website at www.cyrusforough.com and click on student achievements. Mr. Forough has retired from Carnegie Mellon University and is now permanently residing in Northbrook in order to be with his family.
Noted for the "fiery intensity" and "poetic vision" of his playing, Cyrus Forough has received reviews which comprise a lexicon of superlatives in more than a dozen languages. A Laureate of the Tchaikovsky International Competition, he has also won first prize in the Milwaukee Symphony Violin Competition, and along with his wife, pianist Carolyn McCracken, was a winner of the United States Artistic Ambassador Program's National Violin/Piano Duo Competition as the Forough/McCracken Duo.
Cyrus Forough has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Milwaukee Symphony, the Alabama Symphony, the Belgian National Radio Orchestra, NIRT, The Moscow State Orchestra, and with other orchestras internationally with such conductors as Rudolf Barshai, Zdenek Kosler, Farhad Mechkat, Paul Polivnick, Alexander Rahbari, Loris Tjeknavorian, and Andre Vandernoot.
For his post graduate studies, Mr. Forough spent three years at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the legendary violinist David Oistrakh. Upon Oistrakh's untimely death, he attended Indiana University School of Music where he studied with, and was the personal assistant to, distinguished violinist and pedagogue Josef Gingold. Prior to retiring, Mr. Forough was a full-time Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and an Artist Teacher at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts.
Noted for the "fiery intensity" and "poetic vision" of his playing, Cyrus Forough has received reviews which comprise a lexicon of superlatives in more than a dozen languages. A Laureate of the Tchaikovsky International Competition, he has also won first prize in the Milwaukee Symphony Violin Competition, and along with his wife, pianist Carolyn McCracken, was a winner of the United States Artistic Ambassador Program's National Violin/Piano Duo Competition as the Forough/McCracken Duo.
Cyrus Forough has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Milwaukee Symphony, the Alabama Symphony, the Belgian National Radio Orchestra, NIRT, The Moscow State Orchestra, and with other orchestras internationally with such conductors as Rudolf Barshai, Zdenek Kosler, Farhad Mechkat, Paul Polivnick, Alexander Rahbari, Loris Tjeknavorian, and Andre Vandernoot.
For his post graduate studies, Mr. Forough spent three years at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the legendary violinist David Oistrakh. Upon Oistrakh's untimely death, he attended Indiana University School of Music where he studied with, and was the personal assistant to, distinguished violinist and pedagogue Josef Gingold. Prior to retiring, Mr. Forough was a full-time Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and an Artist Teacher at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts.