Gilbert Shufflebotham

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{{Infobox musical artist

|birth_name = Gilbert Shufflebotham

|birth_date = {{birth date|1907|05|06|df=y}}

|birth_place = Horton, Staffordshire, England

|background = non_vocal_instrumentalist

|genre = Classical

|instruments = Viola

|occupation = Musician

|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1978|03|05|1907|05|06}}

|death_place = Ripon, North Yorkshire, England

}}

Gilbert Shufflebotham (1907–1978) was a British violist and violinist. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music.{{cite news |date=17 March 1978 |title= Obituary: Mr. G. Shufflebotham |work= Ripon Gazette |page=40}} He started his playing career on the violin, performing for radio broadcasts in the 1920s.{{cite journal |title=Birmingham Programmes |journal=Radio Times |date=16 June 1926 |page=439}}

He was principal violist of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra{{cite news |title=Two Quartet rehearsals |work=Birmingham Daily Gazette |date=12 November 1949}}{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Edward |title=Orchestra Inspired |work=Sheffield Daily Telegraph |date=24 April 1950}} and played in the Hallé Orchestra,{{cite news |title=The New City Orchestra |work=Birmingham Mail |date=18 August 1944}}{{cite news |last1=B. |first1=E. |title=Halle Orchestra and Ensemble Players |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=18 April 1945}} the Birmingham String Quartet,{{cite news |last1=D. |first1=M. |title=Two Quartet Recitals |work=Birmingham Daily Gazette |date=12 November 1949}} the Birmingham Ensemble Players{{cite journal |title=Music in the Provinces |journal=The Musical Times |date=May 1945 |volume=86 |issue=1227 |page=156 |doi=10.2307/935527 |jstor=935527}}{{cite news |last1=B. |first1=E. |title=Unfamiliar Chamber Music |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=22 March 1945}} as well as a number of other ensembles.{{cite news |last1=B. |first1=E. |title=Music in Birmingham |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=14 October 1944}} He was a pupil of Lionel Tertis.{{cite book |last1=Riley |first1=Maurice W. |title=The History of the Viola |date=1980 |publisher=Braun-Brumfield, Ann Arbor |location=Michigan, U.S.A |isbn=0960315004}}{{cite book |last1=White |first1=John |title=Lionel Tertis, The First Great Virtuoso of the Viola |date=2006 |publisher=Boydell Press |location=Woodbridge, Suffolk |isbn=184383278X |page=200}}

In 1947 he gave the CBSO's first performance of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with the orchestra's deputy leader and Element Quartet violist, Dorothy Hemming.{{cite news |last1=D. |first1=M. |title=Soloists from Orchestra |work=Birmingham Daily Gazette |date=16 May 1947}} He performed the work again in 1950 with the CBSO and Norris Stanley, with George Weldon conducting.{{cite news |date=21 April 1950 |title= A sensitive performance |work= Evening Despatch |page=5}}

In February 1948, he performed William Walton's Viola Concerto with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.{{cite news |title=Fine Work for Viola |work=Birmingham Daily Gazette |date=2 February 1948}}

Shufflebotham was the Head of Music at Ripon Grammar School. He founded and conducted the award-winning Knypersley String Orchestra{{cite journal |title=The Knypersley String Orchestra |journal=Radio Times |date=24 August 1938 |volume=60 |issue=777 |page=41}}{{cite journal |title=Running Your Own Show: Or String Orchestra |journal=Radio Times |date=12 May 1939 |issue=814 |page=64}} and conducted the Ripon Schools' String Orchestra.{{cite journal |title=Music Club, BBC Home Service |journal=Radio Times |date=12 July 1962 |issue=2017}}