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Sundays @ Four: Mads Tolling Trio

Mads Tolling Trio

Mads Tolling, violin
Mike Abraham, guitar
George Ban-Weiss, bass

Join us for a free "Meet-the-Artists" reception following the concert!

About Mads Tolling and his Trio:

Mads Tolling, internationally renowned violinist and composer, is a two-time Grammy award-winner. As a former nine-year member of both Turtle Island Quartet and bassist Stanley Clarke's band, Mads has spent most his professional life touring internationally.

As part of Turtle Island Quartet, Mads won two Grammy Awards for Best Classical Crossover album with the recordings 4+Four and A Love SupremeThe Legacy of John Coltrane. In 2007 Mads started his Mads Tolling Trio and immediately recorded the album Speed of Light. The following year the trio expanded to a quartet. In it are some of the top Bay Area musicians, including Mike Abraham on guitar, George Ban-Weiss on bass, and Eric Garland on drums. Recordings of his own trio and quartet have received rave reviews in Downbeat Magazine, Strings Magazine, Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Mads has recorded with Stanley Clarke and jazz greats Russell Ferrante and Stefon Harris, and has performed with Chick Corea, Ramsey Lewis, Kenny Barron, and Paquito D'Rivera. He has received Denmark's Sankt Annae's Award for Musical Excellence as well as grants from Queen Margaret, Sonning Foundation, and the Berklee Elvin Jones Award.

An accomplished composer, Mads was commissioned by Michael Morgan to write a Violin Concerto for Oakland East Bay Symphony, which premiered this past spring. Mads serves on faculty at Berkeley's Jazzschool and is a frequent educator on jazz improvisation, including at the Crowden School.