Chamber Music Masterclass - Colin Carr

An internationally acknowledged master of his craft, cellist Colin Carr appears throughout the world as concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and recording artist. Acclaimed for his “dazzling virtuosic technique, nimble bowing, [and] eloquent vibrato”(Winnipeg Free Press) he has appeared with major orchestras worldwide including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, the symphonies of Chicago, Los Angeles, Montréal, Washington, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and all the major orchestras of Australia and New Zealand. Conductors with whom he has worked include Jaap van Zweden, Simon Rattle, Valery Gergiev, Neeme Järvi and Gianandrea Noseda, and he has been a regular guest at the BBC Proms.

As a member of the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio, he recorded and toured extensively for 20 years, and was a frequent guest with the Guarneri and Emerson string quartets. He continues his chamber music collaborations at music festivals worldwide.
Recent CDs include the complete Bach suites on the Wigmore Live label and the complete Beethoven Sonatas and Variations on the MSR Classics label with Thomas Sauer. Colin has been honored with First Prize in the Naumburg Competition, the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Award, and as winner of the Young Concert Artists competition. He is professor of cello at the Royal Academy of Music and at Stony Brook University in New York. In 1998, St. John’s College, Oxford created the post of “Musician in Residence” expressly for him. Colin’s cello was made by Matteo Gofriller in Venice in 1730. He makes his home in the UK. When not at the cello, Colin can be found running his usual 6 miles a day, or indulging his boundless passion for his soccer team Liverpool, the city of his birth.