Roger Tapping, viola

Roger Tapping was a member of the Takács Quartet for ten years from 1995, during which time the quartet’s busy international career included Beethoven Cycles in New York, Paris, London, Sydney, Cleveland and Los Angeles, and Bartok Cycles in New York, London, Madrid, Tokyo (for TV), Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. Their recordings for DECCA/London, including the complete quartets of Bartok and Beethoven, have won 3 Gramophone Chamber Music Recording of the Year awards, a Grammy and three more Grammy nominations, and 3 Japanese Academy Awards. As a member of the quartet, Tapping taught regularly at the Aspen Festival, the Taos Quartet School, and the Guildhall School of Music.

In London, Tapping played in a number of Britain's leading chamber ensembles, making several highly acclaimed CDs, and touring for the British Council in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Mexico, before joining Britain's longest established quartet, the Allegri Quartet, with whom he played full time from 1989 to 1995. He taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London, was principal viola of the London Mozart Players, and a member of the English Chamber Orchestra. He was a charter member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and a frequent participant in Sandor Végh's International Musicians' Seminar in Cornwall, England.

Tapping is now on the faculties of the New England Conservatory, the Longy School, and The Boston Conservatory, and continues to play chamber music and viola recitals. He is a member of the jury of the Tertis International Viola Competition in August 2006.

Tapping is a member of the Order of the Knight Cross of the Hungarian Republic, holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Nottingham, and is a fellow of the Guildhall School of Music in London.