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| David Garrett |
| A | EE |
| Born | |
| Aachen (Germany) | |
| Studies | |
| Germany, USA | |
| Highlights | |
| Youngest exclusive Artist for DGG at the age of 13 | Vienna Musikverein | London Philharmonic Orchestra | |
| Recordings | |
| Deutsche Grammophon | Decca | |
| Short Biography | |
| David Garrett has been back, playing in international concert halls, for two years now. After his several year “hiatus”, recommendations by Zubin Mehta prompted invitations leading him to Milan (February 2007, Brahm’s Violin Concert) and to Israel in May 2007, where he played 11 concerts with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (the Mozart Concert in G Major, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and the Paganini Concert No. 2 “La Campanella”). The conductor was George Pehlivenian, who immediately invited him to play with his orchestra in Ljubljana in October 2008. Further orchestra engagements with the Orchestre National de Lyon under the direction of Jun Märkl and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg under the direction of Sir Neville Marriner lead David Garrett to Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Luxemburg, Croatia, Israel, the US, Brazil and Japan. In February 2008, David Garrett will tour the US with the Israel Chamber Orchestra. With Sir Neville Marriner, he will once again perform the Violin Concert by Elgar in April 2008. Another of David Garret’s great loves is chamber music. His partners at the piano include Itamar Golan, Daniel Gortler and Milana Chernyavska. During the 2007/08 season, recital tours led him to various countries, including Germany, Korea and Japan. Developing young people’s enthusiasm for classical concerts is close to David Garrett’s heart. To do that, he likes to give regular interviews about his concerts, which together with pictures arouse interest among the young audience. David Garrett is very photogenic and he benefits from his experience as a model, which he gained during his years in New York. His latest release of “free” at DECCA equally pursues this aim of arousing young people’s interest in classical music. The release contains arrangements and compositions of his own of pieces and melodies that have accompanied him in his life so far. The CD is in the pop charts in South East Asia. Together with his band, consisting of keyboard, guitar and drums, he gives concerts that include classical sonatas in the first part (accompanied by a concert grand piano) and arrangements and compositions, as well as Nothing Else Matters by Metallica in the second part. David Garrett was born in Aachen as son of German-American parents and received his first violin lessons at the age of four. He had his first public concert at the age of 10 with the Hamburger Philharmoniker under the direction of Gerd Albrecht. In 1992, he began to work with the great Polish violinist Ida Haendel, who significantly influenced his artistic development. Afterwards, an unprecedented “prodigy career” begins, leading David Garrett to all major cities in Europe, America and Japan to perform with the most distinguished orchestras and conductors, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Orchestre National de Paris, the Mozarteum Orchester, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Staatskapelle Dresden and many others. Partners at the music stand included Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Herbert Blomstedt, Charles Dutoit, Eliahu Inbal und Mikhail Pletnev, to name a few. In 1996, David Garrett performed the Elgar Violin Concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the conduction of Sir Yehudi Menuhin in the Wiener Musikverein. At the age of 18, David Garrett moved to New York, where he became one of the first students of Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School. Working with Itzhak Perlman, David Garrett found a way to his own musical language and gains new confidence and the willingness to lead a life for music. Stylistically flexible, he developed a versatile repertoire from Bach and Mozart, including the great classical violin concerts of Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky and the rarely played violin concerts by Conus, Schumann and Dvorák up to the virtuosic pieces by Waxman, Ravel and Saint-Saëns, commending him worldwide as an exceptional soloist with infatuatingly pure sounds and youthful spirit. In 1994 at the age of 13, David Garrett signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon as their youngest artist. The following recordings have been released: Mozart Violin Concerts with Claudio Abbado (1995); the 24 Paganini Caprices (1997), the Violin Concerts by Tchaikovsky and Conus with the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev (2001), “Pure Classics” as Compilation of his first recordings (2002). David Garrett plays a Stradivari violin from 1710 as well as a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini from 1772. 2007/2008 If you wish to revise this biography, please contact Mark Stephan Buhl Artists Management. Please use material of the current season only. | |
