Geoff Nuttall, violinist with the St Lawrence String Quartet, has died of pancreatic most cancers on the age of 56.
Because the quartet’s founding first violinist, as director of chamber music for the Spoleto Competition USA and as a Stanford College college member since 1998, Geoff was an inspirational and far revered presence within the chamber music subject.
Geoff’s St Lawrence colleagues issued the next assertion:
‘With utmost disappointment, at present we stated goodbye to our good friend and colleague Geoff Nuttall. He died at age 56 together with his spouse Livia at his facet.
‘Geoff was an impressed artist whose loyalty to his chosen passions and folks was legendary. (…) He had an lively and religious connection to music that rubbed off on anybody fortunate sufficient to witness him play. He always impressed us to heights we by no means dreamed of.
‘In his residence bases at Stanford College, on the Spoleto USA Competition and in lots of different locations around the globe, Geoff touched numerous lives by his performances, educating, advocacy and friendship. We’ll miss him each single day, however really feel immensely grateful to have been his fellow traveller.’
Over the course of the Quartet’s 33-year profession, Geoff carried out internationally on 5 continents. He additionally collaborated with composers together with John Adams, Osvaldo Golijov, and quite a few others, and recorded Grammy-nominated and Juno award-winning albums.
Geoff and his St Lawrence colleagues served as graduate ensemble-in-residence on the Juilliard College, Yale College, and the College of Hartford’s Hartt College of Music, and on the school at Stanford College, the place the quartet has been ensemble-in-residence since 1999. From 2009 till his passing, Geoff was the director of chamber music on the Spoleto Competition USA in Charleston, South Carolina, the place he introduced collectively a few of chamber music’s most beloved musicians to rejoice the artwork kind with spontaneous collaborations, and delighted audiences together with his participating, heat and insightful introductions.
Geoff lived within the Bay Space together with his spouse, violinist Livia Sohn, and their two sons, Jack and Ellis.
Picture: Marco Borggreve
