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He is a violist who was born
in Dublin, Ireland,
and grew up in Scotland. He studied at the Royal College of
Music in London and was awarded
several prizes for chamber music and viola. Pierre Boulez invited him to join the
Ensemble Contemporian in Paris
in 1983 and from 1990 he was a member of the Arditti Quartet, with whom he
gave several premiere performances of composers such as Xenakis,
Stockhausen and Berio. From 1998 he concentrated on his
solo career and has given premieres including Violin Sonata by Henze, which was dedicated
to him. He has given recitals
in many major European cities and broadcasts for the German WDR. Recently he has pioneered the viola d'amore, which has two sets of seven strings, and
has been working on building a repertoire for this new instrument. His solo recordings include the
acclaimed Spectral Viola and the
solo recital disc of Ligeti,
Kurtag, Dillon, Dusapin,
Sciarrino and Berio, which won the Deutsche Schallplaten Preis. He is currently a professor of
viola at the Musikene in San
Sebastian and lives in Paris.
Sources:
- http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/rz3a035/biography.html
- http://www.cmc.ie/news/2004/concorde-knox.html
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