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Violist who
started out on the violin at eight years of age but gravitated to the viola
at eighteen. He attended Cambridge University and the Royal College of
Music and studied under the watchful eye of Bruno Giurana. He has been a member of the Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra, the Composer Resource Ensemble, the London Philharmonic
Orchestra, and the Philharmonia Orchestra of London.
Recordings on
which he appears include: Johann
Sebastian Bach’s chorale preludes from Komm, Gott, Schopfer,
heiliger Geist, BWV 631
and Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 654, and
“Prelude and fugue in E flat major, BWV 552 (“St.
Anne”); Johannes Brahms’ “Piano quartet in G minor, op.
25”; Lawrence of Arabia; Les Miserables: The Complete Symphonic Recording;
and, Arnold Schoenberg’s “Concerto after Monn’s
Concerto in D major for harpsichord”, “Concerto, op. 42”,
“Concerto, op. 36”, “4 Lieder, op. 22”, “Die Gluckliche Hand, op. 18”, “Kammersymphonie no. 2”, Pelleas und Melisande, op. 5, and “Variations,
op. 31”.
Sources:
- http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/orchestra/players/violas/michael_turner/
- http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1519832/a/Complete+Symphonic+Recording.htm
- http://www.emusic.com/album/Maurice-Jarre-Lawrence-of-Arabia-MP3-Download/10891971.html
- http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~ahugill/composerresource/
- http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/schoenberg/as_disco/names/groups/philharm.htm
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