ドロシー・ディレイ
Born in Würzburg, Germany, he is the son of violin pedagogue Egon Sassmannshaus. After receiving his bachelor's degree from Cologne, where he studied with Igor Ozim, Sassmannshaus received a master's degree from the Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Dorothy DeLay, and won first prize in the International Chamber Music Competition in Colmar, France. He taught at the University of Texas, Austin and at Sarah Lawrence College before joining CCM full-time in 1983. He currently holds school's distinguished Dorothy Richard Starling Chair for Classical Violin, a position previously held by the late Dorothy Delay.