Oliver Butterworth (violinist)

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Oliver Butterworth, ARAM is a British violinist, music educator, and arts administrator.

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Butterworth entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1965 as Sterndale Bennett Scholar and studied with Manoug Parikian. He then studied at the Prague Conservatory with Jaroslav Pekelský and later with Viktor Lieberman in Rotterdam.

He joined the English Chamber Orchestra in 1971 and was appointed leader of the Dartington Ensemble and Piano Trio in 1981.

Butterworth was Senior Lecturer at Dartington College of Arts and later Professor of Violin at Trinity College of Music from 1989 until 2008. He was also Artistic Director of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra from 1990 until 2001.

Butterworth is Artistic Director of Al Farabi Concerto.

In 2002 Butterworth was appointed an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. [1]

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