David Grimal - French Violinist

David GRIMAL was born in 1973 in Paris and started to play the violon at the age of cinq. He won First Prize in violon and musique de chambre 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 un soliste 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.

Violon (vee oh lahn) -violin       cinq (sank) - five       

Musique de chambre (mew zeek deh sham bruh) -chamber music

un soliste (uhn sohl leest) - a soloist

Dissonances & David Grimal - Mozart