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James Durrant has died at the age of 91. Photo courtesy Dawn Durrant The violist James Durrant died in Glasgow on 21 May aged 91. In an extremely productive career, he performed with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish National Orchestra and taught and conducted at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In a 2005 profile of Durrant for The Strad, the music critic and journalist Tully Potter wrote ‘It would be easy to depict Jimmy Durrant as an eccentric, especially if you have seen him on the concert platform. He plays a battered modern viola (by Giovanni Balti Morassi, Cremona, 1974) which he ran over in his car 22 years ago; and in his performing days a party piece was ....
2021-01-06T10:58:00+00:00 The violinist led the LSO for two periods, between 1965 and 1979, before turning to conducting The British violinist and conductor John Georgiadis has died at the age of 81. As a violinist he is best remembered as the concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) from 1965 to 1973, and then from 1976 to 1979. He then became a successful conductor, working with orchestras around the world including three years as music director of the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra. Born in 1939 in Essex, Georgiadis began playing the violin aged six. He studied with local teacher Vanna Brown before entering London’s Royal Academy of Music, studying with Frederick Grinke. He also spent a year with René Benedetti in Paris. His first appointment as concertmaster was with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, from 1963 to 1965, when he left to take up the same position at the LSO. Highlights from this period included giving the first English performan ....