1. Mads Tolling won Grammy Awards for Best Classical Crossover Album as part of Turtle Island Quartet's recordings 4+Four and A Love Supreme - The Legacy of John Coltrane.
14 Facts About Mads Tolling
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Mads Tolling recorded on Stanley Clarke's The Toys of Men.
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Mads Tolling has received commissions to write and solo with symphony orchestras.
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Mads Tolling has performed with Al Di Meola, Kenny Barron, Paquito D'Rivera, and Leo Kottke.
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Mads Tolling grew up in Copenhagen, Denmark, and he started playing the violin at age six.
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Mads Tolling was trained classically, at first using the Suzuki method and later using variety of material.
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Mads Tolling attended the musically minded, Sankt Annae High School, and after graduation he received a large scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston.
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At Berklee Tolling studied with JoAnne Brackeen, Hal Crook and Joe Lovano, and he met and jammed with violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, who in turn recommended Mads to join bassist Stanley Clarke's band.
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Mads Tolling played in Clarke's band till 2010, and the two musicians have collaborated on three recordings to date.
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Mads Tolling joined Turtle Island Quartet in 2003 at first on viola, and in 2008 he switched to play the violin.
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Mads Tolling ended his time in the group in 2012 to pursue solo projects.
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In 2007, Mads Tolling formed the Mads Tolling Trio and immediately recorded Speed of Light.
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Mads Tolling has performed at Yoshi's, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, Kuumbwa Jazz, Throckmorton Theater and Russian River Jazz Festival.
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Mads Tolling has performed with The Who in their Moving On Tour in San Francisco on October 9,2019.