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===Teacher=== Primrose was also a teacher during his violist career. He taught in many countries across the world, including the [[Curtis Institute of Music]] in [[Philadelphia]]. He taught at the [[USC Thornton School of Music|University of Southern California]] from 1961 to 1965 with [[Jascha Heifetz]]. After teaching at USC, he moved to the [[Indiana University Jacobs School of Music]] where he remained from 1965 to 1972. In 1971, Primrose went to the [[Tokyo University of the Arts]] and the [[Toho Gakuen School of Music]]. He occasionally taught at [[Juilliard School]], [[Eastman School of Music]]<ref name="Dalton" /> and the [[Sydney Conservatorium of Music]],<ref name="newspaper">{{cite news|title=William Primrose: Great Viola Performer Donates Collection to "Y"|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/7529257|access-date=15 April 2016|work=The Daily Herald|date=20 Feb 1977|location=Provo, Utah}}</ref> In Australia, [[Richard Tognetti]] was one of his students.<ref name="the telegraph">{{cite news|last1=Hewett|first1=Ivan|title=Richard Tognetti: the top dogs from Down Under|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/8911000/Richard-Tognetti-the-top-dogs-from-Down-Under.html|access-date=15 April 2016|work=The Telegraph|date=23 Nov 2011}}</ref> Primrose was a guest lecturer at [[Brigham Young University]] from 1979 to 1982. Primrose wrote and contributed to several books on viola playing: ''Art and Practice of Scale Playing'' (1954), ''Technique is Memory'' (1960), ''Violin and Viola'' (with Yehudi Menuhin and Denis Stevens, 1976), and ''Playing the Viola'' (1988).<ref name="Dalton" /><ref name="BYU mag">{{cite journal|last1=Walker|first1=Michael|title=Resonating Beauty|journal=BYU Magazine|date=Fall 2003|url=http://magazine.byu.edu/article/resonating-beauty/|publisher=[[Brigham Young University]]}}</ref> Some of his notable students include Canadian violinist [[Albert Pratz]],<ref name="albert pratz">{{cite web|last1=King|first1=Betty Nygaard|last2=Maud|first2=McLean|title=Albert Pratz|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/albert-pratz-emc/|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia|publisher=Historica Canada|access-date=15 April 2016}}</ref> former principal of the Los Angeles Philharmonic [[Alan de Veritch]],<ref name="veritch">{{cite web|title=Alan De Veritch: The Musician|url=http://www.alandeveritch.com/biography-musician/|website=The Life and Times of Alan de Veritch|date=10 August 2014|access-date=15 April 2016}}</ref> the American composer [[David Campbell (composer)|David Campbell]],<ref name="campbell">{{cite news|title=David Campbell - Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304536104579560452500175712|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=20 May 2014|access-date=2 June 2016|last1=Fusilli|first1=Jim}}</ref> and [[Olympic Music Festival]] founder and violist [[Alan Iglitzin]], who was a member of the [[Philadelphia String Quartet]]..<ref name="olympic">{{cite web|title=Alan Iglitzin|url=http://www.olympicmusicfestival.org/?team=alan-iglitzin|website=Olympic Music Festival|publisher=The Olympic Music Festival|access-date=15 April 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625124651/http://www.olympicmusicfestival.org/?team=alan-iglitzin|archive-date=25 June 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref>[https://www.concertsinthebarn.org/] Other notable pupils include, Martha Strongin Katz, Karen Tuttle, Joseph de Pasquale and Cynthia Phelps.
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