Joseph W. Polisi, president of The Juilliard School, has announced that violist ROGER TAPPING will join the Juilliard String Quartet in September 2013, succeeding SAMUEL RHODES, the ensemble’s violist since 1969. Tapping also becomes a member of Juilliard’s viola faculty beginning with the fall 2013 semester. Since 2005 he has taught at New England Conservatory, and had previously spent ten years as a member of the Takács Quartet. Before emigrating from England to the U.S. in 1995 he was on the faculty of London’s Royal Academy of Music. In the U.K. Tapping also served as violist in the Allegri Quartet, as principal viola of the London Mozart Players, and as a member of the English Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Rhodes will remain on the Juilliard faculty as chair of the Viola Department. In 2012-13 he celebrates his 44th and farewell season with the Juilliard String Quartet, whose other members are Joseph Lin and Ronald Copes, violin, and Joel Krosnick, cello.
Posted October 16, 2012
