Donald Maurice

Donald Maurice’s viola teachers included Nannie Jamieson at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Max Rostal at Aldeburgh, William Primrose at Banff, and Donald McInnes at the University of Washington.

In 2015 he formed Archi d’Amore Zelanda in which he plays the viola d’amore, and in which he is joined by Jane Curry (guitar) and since 2017 by Inbal Megiddo (cello). In 2016 the trio toured in Malaysia, Thailand and Poland and were featured artists at the International Viola d’Amore Congress at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Center for Music in Luslawice, Poland.

Donald Maurice has performed for over four decades as soloist, chamber musician and conductor, and has premiered many works. He has been featured as soloist and lecturer at over a dozen International Viola Congresses in Australasia, Europe and North America and has performed for NZ Embassies and diplomatic missions in Bangkok, Berlin, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Ottawa, Warsaw and Washington DC.