Duncan McTier is an
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double bass
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soloist and
professor
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. He is a member of the
Fibonacci Sequence
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.
Biography
Born in Worcestershire, England, Duncan McTier studied a degree in mathematics at
Bristol University
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before joining the
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. McTier won the Isle of Man International Double Bass Competition in 1982 and since then he has performed often with many orchestras, including the
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
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,
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
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,
English Chamber Orchestra
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,
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
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,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra,
RTVE Symphony Orchestra
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and the
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
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.
He recorded a series of albums with the pianist
Kathron Sturrock
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She is a professor at the Royal College of Music and has recorded for Hyperion, Chandos, Pi ...
.
In November 2014 McTier received a non-custodial sentence after pleading guilty to two indecent assaults and one attempted indecent assault, during the 1980s and 1990s, on former students aged between 17 and 23.
From 1996-2014 McTier was a professor of double bass at the
Royal Academy of Music
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in London and is currently professor at the
Queen Sofía College of Music in
Madrid
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,
Spain
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. In 2019, McTier retired from in Zürich.
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Living people
Academics of the Royal Academy of Music
English double-bassists
British male double-bassists
Academic staff of the Reina Sofía School of Music
Honorary members of the Royal Academy of Music
Academic staff of the Zurich University of the Arts
English people convicted of indecent assault
21st-century British double-bassists
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Year of birth missing (living people)
English expatriates in Switzerland
English expatriates in Spain
Musicians from Worcestershire
Players of the BBC Symphony Orchestra