Concert at Gualala Arts

David McCarroll, Violin

Gualala Arts and the Chamber Music Series bring award-winning violinist David McCarroll to Coleman Hall at Gualala Arts on Sunday, January 9, 2022 at 4 pm. Tickets are $40 in advance, $45 at the door (if available.) Tickets can be purchased at Gualala Arts, the Dolphin Gallery, and online at EventBrite.com.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to Mendocino county regulations proof of Covid vaccine is required for all TICKETED inside concerts & workshops, until further notice.

David McCarroll has been described as “a violinist of mature musicality and deep understanding of his repertoire whose playing is distinguished by clarity of form and line” by Musik Heute. Winner of the 2012 European Young Concert Artists Auditions and Silver Medalist at the Klein International Competition, he made his concerto debut with the London Mozart Players in 2002 and has since appeared with orchestras including Radio Symphonieorchester Wien, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich (Simone Young, Grafenegg), Hong Kong Sinfonietta (Christoph Poppen), Santa Rosa Symphony, Mendocino Festival Orchestra, and Philharmonie Zuidnederland. David McCarroll will be performing solo violin works by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Here’s David McCarroll’s program for the January 9 concert:

Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001

1. Adagio
2. Fuga: Allegro
3. Siciliana
4. Presto

Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002

1. Allemanda – Double
2. Corrente – Double: Presto
3. Sarabande – Double
4. Tempo di Borea – Double

– Intermission –

Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003

1. Grave
2. Fuga
3. Andante
4. Allegro

McCarroll performs regularly in major concert halls including the Konzerthaus Berlin, Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Library of Congress, Kennedy Center, 92nd Street Y, and Carnegie Hall. His performances have been broadcast on radio stations including WGBH Boston, WQXR New York, National Public Radio, Ö1, BR­-Klassik and the BBC.

Recent performances have included Stravinsky’s violin concerto at the Konzerthaus Berlin, touring with Musicians from Marlboro, and performances of György Kurtág’s “Kafka Fragments” for violin and soprano. In 2015, he joined the Vienna Piano Trio, with whom he has toured and recorded extensively. The Trio’s recording of the complete Brahms piano trios won the 2017 Echo Klassik award, and in 2020 the Trio’s Beethoven recording received an Opus Klassik award.

An active chamber musician, he regularly plays at festivals including Marlboro, Schubertiade, Heidelberger Frühling, Grafenegg, Lucerne Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Siete Lagos (Argentina), ChamberFest Cleveland, Portland Chamber Music Festival, and with the Israeli Chamber Project. He has performed in many chamber ensembles with musicians including Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode, Miriam Fried, Pamela Frank, Anthony Marwood, Donald Weilerstein, Kim Kashkashian, Roger Tapping, Marcy Rosen, Peter Wiley, Charles Neidich, Jörg Widmann, and Radovan Vlatković.

David was born in Santa Rosa, California in 1986 and grew up at Star Cross Monastery. He 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 receiving a Master’s degree and with Antje Weithaas in the Konzertexamen (Artist Diploma) 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.

Gualala Arts is able to bring you these wonderful artists because of the generosity of the donors to the Gualala Arts Chamber Music Series. Ticket sales cover only a portion of artists’ fees and we are committed to keeping prices affordable in order to make this quality of music performance available for the entire Mendonoma community. Please consider making a donation to maintain exceptional music programming here on our beautiful stretch of the Northern California coast. Categories of giving include:

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