Tasso Adamopoulos
Tasso Adamopoulos is a French violist of Greek origin born in Paris.
After musical studies in Israel, Adamopoulos 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. Since 1990, he has been a soloist at the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and a member of the Sartory Trio, with Roland Daugareil and Étienne Péclard.
He has already played alongside artists such as Wolfgang Sawallisch, Isaac Stern, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Maria João Pires, Lorin Maazel, Emmanuel Krivine, Alain Lombard, etc.
In addition to his concert activity, Adamopoulos teaches at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon and the Conservatoire de Bordeaux where he is responsible for the viola class of the development cycle.
He plays a Landolfi viola dated 1755.
Tasso Adamopoulos is the brother of violinist.
