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 Roger
Tapping, violist, who now chairs the New England Conservatory’s chamber music program, was a member of the Takács Quartet for ten years beginning in 1995. During his time with the Quartet, their international career included Beethoven cycles in New York, Paris, London, Sydney, Cleveland and Los Angeles; and Bartók cycles in New York, London, Madrid, Tokyo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Their recordings for Decca/London have won three Gramophone Awards, a Grammy and three more Grammy nominations. As a member of the Quartet, he 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, made several highly acclaimed CDs, and toured for the British Council in Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Mexico, before joining Britain’s longest established quartet, the Allegri Quartet, in 1989. He taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London, was Principal Violist 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. Current summer festivals include Banff, Yellow Barn, Tanglewood and the Perlman Chamber Music Workshop. He performs as a recitalist, a concerto soloist and a chamber musician, making frequent guest appearances with quartets from the U.S. and Europe. He was brought up in Hampshire, England, and studied at Cambridge University and the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. His viola teachers were Margaret Major of the Aeolian Quartet and Bruno Giuranna. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Nottingham, and is a fellow of the Guildhall School of Music in London. He has been a member of BCMS since 2009.
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