David GRIMAL was born in 1973 in Paris and started to play the violin at the age of five. He won First Prize in violin and chamber music at the Paris Conservatory in 1993. Afterwards he did his postgraduate studies with Regis PASQUIER. He also enriched and deepened his musicality by studying with such personalities as Philipp HIRSCHHORN, Shlomo MINTZ, Isaac STERN.

More recently he won the European Community Prize-1996, the European Radio Union Prize-1996, and received the 'Crédit National" Fellowship Award. He was also honoured as the Classical discovery of the MIDEM 1997.

He has performed as a soloist and in chamber ensembles in Switzerland, Japan,Korea, Hong-Kong, Taiwan, New York (Lincoln Center), Vienna (Musikverein), as well as on the main stages in Paris (Theatre du Chatelet, Theitre des Champs-Elysees, Auditorium du Louvre, Radio-France ...) and in such festivals as Ravinia, The Casals Festival in Porto-Rico, Menton, Festival de Musique en mer, Radio-France Montpellier. He has given radio and television performances on various European channels.

David GRIMAL has given chamber music performances with Youri BASHMET, Boris BÉRÉZOVSKY, Gerard CAUSSÉ, James GALWAY, Christoph HENKEL, Paul MEYER, Karoly MÒCSARI, Pascal MORAGUES, Raphaël OLEG, Régis and Bruno PASQUIER, Jean-Claude PENNE TIER, Xavier PHILLIPS, Roland PIDOUX, Alain PLANES, Emmanuel STROSSER...

David GRIMAL has performed as a soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow Virtuosi, the Stockholm Chamber Orchestra, the Warsaw Symphony, the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra, I Musici di Padova, the Montpellier Philharmonic, the Cannes Symphony, the Avignon Symphony Orchestra, the Paris Conservatory Orchestra...

David GRIMAL plays a 1710 Antonio chamber Stradivarius, loaned by a private sponsor.

Press Reviews

"This young musician has a sound, a sensitivity, a rhythmic and melodic confidence that place him in the highest ranks of the today`s violinists. SudOuest, February 1997.

'A true revelation " Diapason, January 1997.

"One of the great players of his generation." Alain DUAULT, September 1996.

'A genuinely inspired musician, a stylist conscious of his art has heen horn in the empty firmament of French violin playing in the nineties." Diapason, July 1996.

"Remember the name of this young violin David GRIMAL. Since Gidon KREMER, I have never heard his like." Nantes, La Folle Journee Beethoven, February 1996.

"David GRIMAL is an extremely fine violinist and musician who deserves every encouragement and to this end I offer the warmest possible recommendation. Please, hear him if you can." Sir Georg SOLTI, January 1996.

Repertoire

Solo violin: J.S. BACH sonatas & partitas, B.BARTÔK solo sonata, E. YSAYE sonatas, W.H. ERNST Erlkönig, N. MILSTEIN Paganiniana, ...

Violin and piano: W.A. MOZART sonatas, L. VAN BEETHOVEN nos 1,2,4,5,7,9 & 10, J. BRAHMS sonatas, R. SCHUMANN sonata no.2, F. SCHUBERT sonatines & fantaisie, R.Strauss sonata, H. EISLER sonata, A. SCHÖNBERG fantaisie, Cl. DEBUSSEY sonata, C. FRANCK sonata, G. FAURÉ sonata, S. PROKOVIEV sonatas nos. 1 & 2 and five melodies ...

Concertos: B. BARTÔK no.2; L. VAN BEETHOVEN; J. BRAHMS concerto in D Major and double concerto for violin and cello; e. CHAUSSON Poème; F. MENDELSSOHN conecrto in E Minor and double concerto for violin and piano; W.A. MOZART concertos nos 3,4,5 and symphonia concertante; S. PROKOVIEV nos. 1 & 2; M. RAVEL Tzigane; C.SAINT-SAËNS concerto no.3 and Rondo capricioso; F. SCHUBERT Konzerstück; D.SHOSTAKOVITCH; J. SIBELIUS; P.TCHAÏKOVSKI ...