Tasso Adamopoulos (June 1944 – 3 January 2021)
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''The Strad''. Retrieved 6 January 2021. was a French
violist
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origin.
Life and career
Adamopoulos was born in Paris, France. After musical studies in Israel, he became a violist soloist at the
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (RPhO; nl, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest) is a Dutch symphony orchestra based in Rotterdam. Its primary venue is the concert hall De Doelen. The RPhO is considered one of the Netherlands' two principal or ...
at the age of 19. Subsequently, he was successively soloist at the
Gulbenkian Orchestra, the
Ensemble orchestral de Paris and the
Orchestre national de France
The Orchestre national de France (ONF; literal translation, ''National Orchestra of France'') is a French symphony orchestra based in Paris, founded in 1934. Placed under the administration of the French national radio (named Radio France since ...
from 1980 to 1990. From 1990, he was a soloist at the
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and a member of the Sartory Trio, with Roland Daugareil
Roland Daugareil
on the site of the Conservatoire de Paris and Étienne Péclard
Étienne Péclard (born 21 December 1946 in les Deux-Sèvres) is a contemporary French cellist.
Biography
Péclard studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with André Navarra, Joseph Calvet, Jacques Février and Jean Hubeau. There he obtained the ...
.
In addition to his concert activity, Adamopoulos taught at the and the Conservatoire de Bordeaux where he was responsible for the viola class of the development cycle.
He played a Landolfi Landolfi is an Italian surname, which is derived from the given name Landolfo or Landulf, which in turn is composed of the German words ''land'' ("land") and ''wulf'' ("wolf").''Dictionary of American Family Names''"Landolfi Family History" Oxford ...
viola dated 1755.
Adamopoulos, who had cancer, died in Paris on 3 January 2021, after contracting COVID-19
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during the COVID-19 pandemic in France
The COVID-19 pandemic in France has resulted in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and deaths.
The virus was confirmed to have reached France on 24 January 2020, when the first COVID-19 case in both Europe and France was identified in Bordeaux. ...
.
References
External links
Biography of Tasso Adamopoulos
on Hexagone.net
Tasso Adamopoulos
on data.bnf.fr
Tasso Adamopoulos
on Khloros International Production
Chaconne BACH 4 Violas
with Tasso Adamopoulos, Elçim Ozdemir, Stéphane Rougier
Stéphane Rougier is a French classical violinist .
Biography
Rougier performs on the biggest international stages in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Munich, Saint Petersburg...
He was admitted at the age of 14 t ...
& Nicolas Mouret
Hommage to Tasso Adamopoulos on French public radio broadcast France Musique
Newspaper article on Portuguese daily newspaper PĂşblico
SIC NotĂcias Portuguese private television channel website on Tasso Adamopoulos' death
Obituary on The Violin Channel
Opéra National de Bordeaux on Tasso Adamopoulos death
1944 births
2021 deaths
French classical violists
Musicians from Paris
French music educators
20th-century French musicians
20th-century French male musicians
20th-century classical musicians
21st-century French musicians
21st-century French male musicians
21st-century classical musicians
French people of Greek descent
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in France
20th-century violists
21st-century violists
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