Tasso Adamopoulos
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Life and career
Adamopoulos was born in Paris, France. After musical studies in Israel, he became a violist soloist at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 19. Subsequently, he was successively soloist at the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Ensemble orchestral de Paris and the Orchestre national de France from 1980 to 1990. From 1990, he was a soloist at the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and a member of the Sartory Trio, with Roland Daugareil[http://lamiresol.free.fr/spip/spip.php?article30 Roland Daugareil] on the site of the Conservatoire de Paris and Étienne Péclard.
In addition to his concert activity, Adamopoulos taught at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon and the Conservatoire de Bordeaux where he was responsible for the viola class of the development cycle.
He played a Landolfi viola dated 1755.
Adamopoulos, who had cancer, died on 3 January 2021, in Paris after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.
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External links
- [http://www.hexagone.net/music/cvprofs/tasso%20adamopoulos.htm Biography of Tasso Adamopoulos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060514093708/http://www.hexagone.net/music/cvprofs/tasso%20adamopoulos.htm |date=2006-05-14 }} on Hexagone.net
- [http://data.bnf.fr/13958479/tasso_adamopoulos/ Tasso Adamopoulos] on data.bnf.fr
- [http://www.khloros.org/fr/p/artists/le-quatuor-de-bordeaux/tasso-adamopoulos/15 Tasso Adamopoulos] on Khloros International Production
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QesTnSqOdtc&list=PLfoJX8FENnypKCqDD6W9RWjp8Dr9h-Dgu&index=2 Chaconne BACH 4 Violas] with Tasso Adamopoulos, Elçim Ozdemir, Stéphane Rougier & Nicolas Mouret
- [https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/au-fil-de-l-actu/hommage-a-tasso-adamopoulos-avec-carole-dauphin-90678 Hommage to Tasso Adamopoulos on French public radio broadcast France Musique ]
- [https://www.publico.pt/2021/01/06/culturaipsilon/noticia/morreu-violetista-tasso-adamopoulos-antigo-solista-orquestra-gulbenkian-1945320 Newspaper article on Portuguese daily newspaper Público]
- [https://sicnoticias.pt/especiais/coronavirus/2021-01-06-Covid-19.-Morreu-o-violetista-Tasso-Adamopoulos-antigo-solista-da-Orquestra-Gulbenkian SIC Notícias Portuguese private television channel website on Tasso Adamopoulos' death]
- [https://theviolinchannel.com/violist-tasso-adamopoulos-died-of-covid-19-aged-76/ Obituary on The Violin Channel]
- [https://www.opera-bordeaux.com/tasso-adamopoulos-17476 Opéra National de Bordeaux on Tasso Adamopoulos death]
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