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 MARCUS
THOMPSON, Violist, has appeared as soloist,
recitalist and chamber music player in series throughout the Americas,
Europe and the Far East. He was featured as soloist with the Symphony
Orchestras of Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, St. Louis and
with the Boston Pops, and has recorded with the Slovenian Radio
Symphony and the Czech National Symphony. He has received critical
acclaim for performances of the John Harbison Viola Concerto with the
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Chicago Sinfonietta, and for
performances of the Penderecki Viola Concerto in Boston and London. He
has been a guest of The Audubon, Borromeo, Cleveland, Emerson, Lydian,
Orion, Shanghai and Vermeer String Quartets, the Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center, and a frequent participant in chamber music
festivals in Amsterdam, Anchorage, Dubrovnik, Montreal, Seattle,
Sitka, Los Angeles, Okinawa and Portland. Mr. Thompson earned his
doctorate degree at The Juilliard School following studies with Walter
Trampler. He is a winner and alumnus of Young Concert Artists, Inc.
Born and raised in The Bronx, New York City, he currently lives in
Boston where, as the Robert R. Taylor Professor of Music at M.I.T., he
founded and leads programs in chamber music and performance study; he
also serves on the viola faculty at the New England Conservatory. He
has been a member of BCMS since 1982.
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