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David
Alberman
Born in London, David Alberman
received his early tuition from Mary Long, Sheila
Nelson, Emmanuel Hurwitz and Vera Kantrovich,
and received his LRAM diploma from the Royal
Academy of music at the age of sixteen. He studied
the violin privately with Prof. Igor Ozim in
Cologne, and then studied Classical Languages
and Philosophy at Oxford University for four
years before returning to music. Having been
a concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of
Europe, where he led the orchestra for such
conductors as Claudio Abbado and Sir Georg Solti,
a long-standing interest in contemporary music
led him in 1986 to join the internationally
renowned Arditti Quartet, who specialise in
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In
1995, he formed a Duo with the virtuoso pianist
Rolf Hind. Since then, the Alberman/Hind Duo
has played recitals in the major European
cities including Vienna, Darmstadt, London,
Stockholm, Oslo, Stuttgart and Brussels. In
addition to recitals with the Duo and teaching
(he is a Guest Professor of New String Music
at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
in London), he became a Principal of the London
Symphony Orchestra in 1999, and has played
as guest concertmaster in groups as varied
as the London Symphony Orchestra itself, the
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Recherche
Freiburg, Sinfonia 21, and the London Sinfonietta.
He is a keen chamber musician, appearing with
groups such as the London Sinfonietta, Nash
and Razumovsky ensembles. He has appeared
as soloist with, among others, the Orchestre
de Lille, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales,
and the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra in Vienna.
David Alberman plays on a Guarneri Del Gesu
violin of 1736.
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