Duncan McTier
Duncan McTier is an English double bass soloist[1] and professor. He is a member of the Fibonacci Sequence.
Biography
Born in Worcestershire, England, Duncan McTier studied a degree in mathematics at Bristol University before joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra 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, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, RTVE Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.[2]
He recorded a series of albums with the pianist Kathron Sturrock.
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.[3]
From 1996-2014 McTier was a professor of double bass at the Royal Academy of Music in London and is currently[when?] professor at the Queen Sofía College of Music in Madrid, Spain.[4] In 2019, McTier retired from Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Zürich.[5]
References
- ^ "Bass Mettle". Glasgow Herald. 7 March 1994. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
- ^ "Biografia. Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía (in Spanish)". Retrieved 17 July 2009.
- ^ Pidd, Helen (11 November 2014). "Double bassist admits sexual assaults on his students". Guardian. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ "Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía. Claustro Académico. Cátedras académicas". Archived from the original on 13 June 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ^ "ZHDK: Hauptfachdozierende Klassik - Streicher". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
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