Violist Roger Tapping was a
member of the Takács Quartet for ten years from 1995, during which time
their international career included Beethoven cycles in New York,
Paris, London, Sydney, Cleveland and Los Angeles, and Bartok cycles in
New York, London, Madrid, Tokyo (for TV), Cleveland, and Pittsburgh.
Their recordings for Decca/London, including the complete quartets of
Bartok and Beethoven, have won three Gramophone Awards, a Grammy and
three more Grammy nominations, three Japan Record Academy Chamber Music
Awards, the BBC Music Disc of the Year Award, and the Classical Brits
Award for Ensemble Album of the Year. As a member of the quartet,
Tapping taught regularly at the Aspen Festival, the Taos Quartet School, and the Guildhall School of Music.
In London, Tapping played in a number of
Britain's leading chamber ensembles, making several highly acclaimed
CDs, and touring for the British Council in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and
Mexico before joining Britain's longest established quartet, the
Allegri Quartet, with whom he played from 1989 to 1995. He taught at
the Royal Academy of Music in London,
was principal viola of the London Mozart Players, and a member of the
English Chamber Orchestra. He was a founding member of the Chamber
Orchestra of Europe and a frequent participant in Sandor Végh's
International Musicians' Seminar in Cornwall, England.
Tapping gives classes at major schools in America in addition to those where he is on faculty. Current summer festivals include Banff,
the Yellow Barn Festival, the Perlman Chamber Music Workshop, and the
Tanglewood String Quartet Seminar. He performs both as a recitalist and
as a chamber musician, playing regularly as a soloist on WGBH and
making frequent guest appearances with quartets from the U.S. and Europe.
He was a jury member and recitalist at the 2006 Tertis International
Viola Competition, and is on the jury of the 2009 London String Quartet
Competition.
Tapping is a member of the Order of the Knight Cross of the Hungarian Republic, holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Nottingham, and is a fellow of the Guildhall School of Music in London.
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