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Warren Benfield

Born:

12 February, 1913

Died:

8 July, 2001
Warren Benfield Studied with:  Anton Torelló i Ros

Played for:  Principal of St Louis Symphony,  Principal of Minneapolis Symphony, Co- principal with Roger Scott of Philadelphia Orchestra from 1942 to 1949, and Principal of the Chicago Symphony starting in 1949.

(Thanks to Ring Warner, a pupil of Warren Benfield for the above information, and to Warren Benfield's grandson, Wayne Koball, for details on his birth.)

Bibliography:

Kupferberg, Herbert, Those Fabulous Philadelphians (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969)

 



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