David McCarroll, Violin

Biography

David McCarroll has been described by the IndieLONDON as “a great talent” who plays “with an impressive depth of feeling.” He has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the London Mozart Players, Santa Rosa Symphony, Marin Symphony, Longwood Symphony, Camellia Symphony, North State Symphony, Symphony of the Redwoods, and the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra. He has appeared in many venues throughout the U.K. including Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, St. Johns, Smith Square, and Fairfield Halls. Silver medalist at the 2007 Klein International Competition, he has received numerous prizes and awards and given performances in Switzerland, Germany, Tunisia, Thailand, England, Wales, Scotland, New Zealand, Israel, Panama, El Salvador, and throughout the United States.

An active chamber musician, he has played in many chamber ensembles with musicians including Miriam Fried, Pamela Frank, Ida Levin, Anthony Marwood, Roger Tapping, Atar Arad, Bonnie Hampton, Natasha Brofsky, Peter Wiley, Paul Katz, Timothy Eddy, Laurence Lesser, Mitsuko Uchida, and Richard Goode. He has performed at festivals including Marlboro, Ravinia, Caramoor’s Rising Stars Series, Prussia Cove’s Open Chamber Music (England), Yellow Barn, Windsor Festival (England), Menuhin Festival Gstaad (Switzerland), Gower (Wales), Manchester Quartetfest (England), Wyastone (Wales), and Spittalfields (London) festivals.

David was born in Santa Rosa, California in 1986 and began studying the violin with Helen Payne Sloat at the age of 4. At 8, he attended the Crowden School of Music in Berkeley studying with Anne Crowden. When David was 13, he received an invitation to join an international group of 60 young music students at the Yehudi Menuhin School outside London where he studied for five years with Simon Fischer. David continued his studies with Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried at New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and is currently studying with Antje Weithaas in the Konzertexamen program at the Hanns Eisler Academy in Berlin.

In addition to music, David maintains an active interest in social concerns including the needs of those impacted by the AIDS pandemic and is currently working on projects of the Starcross Community to help AIDS orphans in Africa. He has played in programs encouraging world peace promoted by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and has given benefit concerts for Doctors Without Borders. With other members of his family, David has worked to get strings to young music students in Cuba where such items are very difficult to obtain. David plays a 1761 violin made by A & J Gagliano.

(from davidmccarroll.com)