Marcus Thompson

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Marcus Thompson (born 1946) is a violist and viola d'amore player known for his work as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and educator. Thompson is a founding member and is currently Artistic Director of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and is Institute Professor at MIT and a faculty member at the New England Conservatory of Music. Thompson was born in New York's South Bronx. He began studying the violin at age six and, at the age of fourteen, entered The Juilliard School Pre-College where he studied with Louise Behrend. Thompson remained at the Juilliard School and eventually earned his doctoral degree in viola and viola d'amore studies. Thompson primarily studied with Walter Trampler while attending the school and was the first person to earn a doctorate in viola performance from Juilliard.[1] Thompson made his professional and New York debut at Carnegie Hall in the Young Concert Artists Series in 1968.[2] Since then, Thompson has presented recitals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, the Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, numerous colleges and universities, and many other places. To mark the Hindemith Centenary, he performed a recital of the complete sonatas with piano for viola and viola d'amore composed by Paul Hindemith in Boston's Jordan Hall with pianist Judith Gordon. As a soloist, Th

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albums

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Bartok, B.: Viola Concerto / Bloch, E.: Viola Suite

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KPM 721

Jongen, J.: Suite for Viola and Orchestra / Francaix, J.: Rhapsodie / Serly, T.: Viola Concerto

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Here Come the Girls

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KSD

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Tison Street, Henri Lazarof, Loren Rush

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Klub Szalonych Dziewic

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Recordings

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Marcus Thompson's Album

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Watch and Learn

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The Ozell Tapes Marcus Miller Live The Official Bootleg [Disc 2]

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I'm So Gone

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