outubro 16, 2007
DEREK SIMPSON - 1º PRÉMIO SUGGIA- LONDRES (1952) MORREU AOS 79 ANOS
Cellist and pedagogue Derek Simpson has died at the age of 79. He was a member of the Aeolian Quartet for 25 years, and his playing can be heard on The Beatles'song 'Eleanor Rigby'.
Born in Nottinghamshire in 1928, Simpson won a music scholarship to Worksop College and from 1948. He studied at London's Royal Academy of Music.
In 1952 he was the first to win the Suggia Prize, which took him to Paris to study for a year with Pierre Fournier.
In June 1956 he joined the Aeolian Quartet, recording Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet among other works. In the 1970s in its final formation - with Emanuel Hurwitz, Raymond Keenlyside and Margaret Major - the Aeolian was the first group to record all the Haydn quartets. Simpson was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music for 40 years.
THE STRAD (OCTOBER 2007)