Martin Outram is an
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viola
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soloist and violist of the
Maggini Quartet
The Maggini Quartet is a British string quartet. Its members are Julian Leaper (Violin 1), Ciaran McCabe (Violin 2), Martin Outram (Viola) and Michal Kaznowski (Cello).
Formed in 1988, the Quartet is known for championing the British repertoir ...
.
Biography
Martin Outram studied at
Fitzwilliam College
Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
The college traces its origins back to 1869 and the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all ...
at
Cambridge University
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and later at the
Royal Academy of Music in
London
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. Outram is the violist of the
Maggini Quartet
The Maggini Quartet is a British string quartet. Its members are Julian Leaper (Violin 1), Ciaran McCabe (Violin 2), Martin Outram (Viola) and Michal Kaznowski (Cello).
Formed in 1988, the Quartet is known for championing the British repertoir ...
.
He has appeared as soloist with the
London Mozart Players
London Mozart Players (LMP) are a British chamber orchestra founded in 1949. LMP are the longest-established chamber orchestra in the United Kingdom. Since 1989, the orchestra has been Resident Orchestra at Fairfield Halls, Croydon.
History
B ...
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Britten Sinfonia, Ambache Chamber Orchestra and New London Orchestra. He is an advocate of British contemporary music, giving first performances of pieces by
Sir
Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.
As a student at both the University of Manchester and the Royal Manchester College of Musi ...
,
York Bowen
Edwin York Bowen (22 February 1884 – 23 November 1961) was an English composer and pianist. Bowen's musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a ...
(first European performance of his ''Viola Concerto''), Adam Gorb, David Gow and
Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...
(first concert performance of Britten's "''Portrait No.2''"). He has performed in major concert halls in the UK and in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Mr Outram has recorded for
Naxos
Naxos (; el, Νάξος, ) is a Greek island and the largest of the Cyclades. It was the centre of archaic Cycladic culture. The island is famous as a source of emery, a rock rich in corundum, which until modern times was one of the best ab ...
and plays on a
Henricus Catenar viola made in Turin in 1680.
Martin Outram is a professor of viola at the
Royal Academy of Music and an Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University and Brunel University.
References
External links
Maggini Quartet - official website
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Living people
Academics of the Royal Academy of Music
Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
English classical violists
British classical violists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of Canterbury Christ Church University