Alan George

Classical viola player. He studied violin with Colin Sauer (2) at Dartington Hall, viola with Herbert Downes in London, and chamber music with Sidney Griller at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1968 he won an open scholarship to King’s College Cambridge, where he became one of the founder members of the Fitzwilliam. Since 1976 he has been actively involved with the period instrument movement, including eleven years as principal viola with John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire Et Romantique. He is currently the Fitzwilliam String Quartet's viola player and is also conductor of the Academy of St. Olave's Chamber Orchestra and principal viola in Southern Sinfonia.