David Grimal is a violinist who is as much involved in the solo repertoire as he is in the chamber music repertoire. He has performed on the world’s greatest stages: Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Philharmonie de Paris, Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Wigmore hall in London, Tonhalle in Zürich, Lincoln Center in New York, Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Liszt Academy Budapest, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, National Concert Hall in Taiwan, Bozar in Brussels
An international career
David Grimal regularly collaborates as a soloist with the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Berliner Symphoniker, the Russian National Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonia, the Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra, and Sinfonia Varsovia. He has performed with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Heinrich Schiff, Lawrence Foster, Emmanuel Krivine, Mikhail Pletnev, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Peter Eötvös, Andris Nelsons, Jukka Pekka Saraste…
Many composers have dedicated their works to him: Marc-André Dalbavie, Brice Pauset, Thierry Escaich, Lisa Lim, Jean-François Zygel, Alexandre Gasparov, Victor Kissine, Fuminori Tanada, Ivan Fedele, Philippe Hersant, Anders Hillborg, Oscar Bianchi, Guillaume Connesson, Frédéric Verrière, Richard Dubugnon, Eric Montalbetti…
A sought-after chamber musician, David Grimal is a guest at the most important international festivals and regularly performs in piano trio with Philippe Cassard and Anne Gastinel.
As a natural extension of this desire to share, he has also created “L’Autre Saison”: a season of concerts to benefit the homeless in Paris. David Grimal was made a Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters in 2008 by the French Ministry of Culture. David Grimal teaches violin at the Musikhochshule in Saarbrücken. He plays the Stradivarius “Ex-Roederer” of 1710 with bows by Pierre Tourte, Léonard and François-Xavier Tourte and Pierre Grunberger.
David Grimal has recorded for EMI, Harmonia Mundi, Aeon, Naïve, Transart, Dissonances Records and La Dolce Volta. His recordings have been praised by the press: BBC choice, Choc de l’année Classica, Arte selection, ffff Telerama etc…
Artistic director and founder of Dissonances
For ten years he has devoted part of his career to developing Les Dissonances of which he is the artistic director. In this laboratory of ideas, conceived as a collective of musicians, David Grimal and his friends live music as a rediscovered joy and approach the symphonic repertoire in the spirit of chamber music.