Harold Wippler

Harold Wippler (born c. 1928) is an American violinist and teacher from Denver. Mr. Wippler played as concert master for the Denver Symphony Orchestra, now the Colorado Symphony Orchestra with his late wife Charleen whom he married in August 1951. The two often played with the Central City Opera Orchestra and spent three years in the early 1950s with the Kansas City Orchestra where Harold was also concert master. Attending the Curtis Institute of Music after winning the L.A. Concerto Competition, he studied under Efrem Zimbalist. During his career he collaborated and recorded with noted violinists such as Jascha Heifetz. Although he has taught multiple international competition winners his most famous student was the talented Eugene Fodor from 1958 to 1968.