Duncan McTier is an

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soloist and

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. He is a member of the

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Biography

Born in Worcestershire, England, Duncan McTier studied a degree in mathematics at Bristol University before joining the

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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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, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra,

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and the

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. He recorded a series of albums with the pianist

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. 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 in London and is currently professor at the

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. In 2019, McTier retired from in Zürich.

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