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Violinist & composer Mads Tolling @ Myspace |
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| Location: | Albany, California |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Sep 12, 2007 (815 days back) |
About Me |
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| Mads Tolling, internationally renowned violinist, violist, and composer, is the newest member of the Grammy Award-winning Turtle Island String Quartet. As violist with the quartet since 2003, he maintains an active touring and recording schedule as well as composing and giving master classes. As a soloist, he regularly tours as jazz violinist with the acclaimed bassist Stanley Clarke and his touring band. Tolling has received Denmark’s Sankt Annae’s Award for Musical Excellence as well as grants from Queen Margaret, the Sonning Foundation and the Berklee Elvin Jones Award. He has performed with Paquito d’Rivera, Kenny Barron Joe Lovano, Al DiMeola, Lenny White and The Assad Brothers.Tolling grew up in Copenhagen, Denmark and moved to the U.S. at the age of 20 to pursue jazz studies. He studied under violinist Matt Glaser, and he graduated summa cum laude from Berklee College of Music in Boston in 2003. While still attending Berklee, the renowned jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty recommended Tolling to join Stanley Clarke’s band. Since then, he has performed more than 100 concerts with Clarke worldwide, including the Newport Jazz Festival and the Hollywood Bowl.Besides his activities as a performer, Tolling is an accomplished composer. Of his three recordings of original material, one features the well-known pianist JoAnne Brackeen. He has recorded with vibraphonist Dave Samuels and appears on RMB singer Teena Marie’s recording “La Dona”. He has additionally contributed numerous arrangements and compositions to Turtle Island String Quartet’s repertoire.Tolling has been a thriving force in the educational aspects of jazz and improvisation. He has been active as a Yamaha clinician and has been involved in workshops, coachings and master classes throughout Canada and the U.S. He was recently invited as a performer and clinician to the 34th International Viola Congress in Montreal, Canada.In his spare time Tolling enjoys golfing, tennis and hiking. In 1999, together with his father, he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. | |
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Music:Member Since: 4/2/2007Band Website: turtleislandquartet.com, stanleyclarke.com Band Members: Influences: Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan Sounds Like: Jazz meets classical meets rock & roll Record Label: Mads Tolling Type of Label: None |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Jazz / Funk / Fusion) |
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| Welcome to Mads Tolling's MySpace account! Please feel free to check out my tracks that are available for download. These tracks include music performed by Stanley Clarke, Dave Samuels, Gerry Brown, m... Posted by Mads Tolling on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:29:00 PST |
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