Monday, December 1, 2008

Myrtle Hart Society On MIT Professor of Music 'Marcus Thompson, viola and viola d'amore'

Rashida N. Black, Founder/Executive Director
December 2008 eNewsletter
Marcus Thompson, viola and viola d'amore
South Bronx, New York native, Marcus Thompson is a distinguished performer both on viola and viola d'amore. A multi-faceted artist, he is equally esteemed as recitalist, orchestral soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and educator. He was recently announced as the new Artistic Director of the Boston Chamber Music Society, which has since its inception in 1982, been led by cellist Ronald Thomas '74. In addition to his busy performing career, Mr. Thompson serves on the Board of Project STEP, is a member of Chamber Music America and the American String Teachers Association. He is also a member of the Viola d'Amore Society and of the American Viola Society. Mr. Thompson served as host director for the 1985 American Viola Society Congress XIII held at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. On his website, you can listen to two excerpts from Rameau's Troisieme Concert, performed at the Harvard Musical Association, with Peter Sykes, Harpsichord, Marcus Thompson, Viola d'Amore, and Laura Jeppesen, Viola da Gamba. Recording courtesy of Lee Eiseman.

B.M., M.S., D.M.A., The Juilliard School. Violin studies with Louise Behrend. Viola with Walter Trampler. Additional studies with Abraham Skernick, Michael Avsharian, and Ivan Galamian. Chamber music studies with the Juilliard, Amadeus, and Netherlands string quartets and Joseph Gingold. Recordings on Vox/Turnabout, Centaur, and with the Boston Chamber Music Society on Northeastern. Former faculty of the Juilliard School Pre-College Division, Oakwood College, Wesleyan University, Mount Holyoke College. Currently Robert R. Taylor Professor of Music and a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT, where he is director of performance and chamber music studies.

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