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August 19, 2023

David Garrett wife – David Christian Bongartz (born 4 September 1980), known by his stage name David Garrett, is a German classical and crossover violinist and recording artist

David Garrett Biography

David Garrett (born David Bongartz, 1980 sept 4 in Aachen, Germany) is a classical violinist and recording artist. At the age of 13, David Garrett was the youngest exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, and had an international career at the young age of 13 to 17.

He was born in Aachen, the son of German-American parents, and first started to learn the violin at the age of four. At the age of 10, he had his first public concert with the Hamburg Philharmonic under the direction of Gerd Albrecht.

When Garrett was four years old, his father bought a violin for his older brother. The young David took an interest and soon learned to play. A year later, he took part in a competition and won first prize. By the age of seven, he was playing once a week in public. He studied violin at the Lubeck Conservatoire.

At the age of 12, he began working with the distinguished Polish violinist Ida Haendel, often travelling to London and the other European cities to meet her. At the age of 13, he recorded two CDs, appeared on German and Dutch television, and gave a concert in the residence of the Federal Republic of Germany President, the Villa Hammerschmidt, at Dr. von Weizsäcker’s personal invitation.

He was offered the use of the famous Stradivarius “San Lorenzo”, which is among the best instruments of the “golden period”.

At the age of 14, as the youngest soloist ever, he signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. At the age of 17, he played with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Zubin Mehta in Delhi and Bombay in concerts marking the 50th anniversary of India’s Independence.

At the age of 19, he played with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchster in Berlin, under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and was hailed by critics. This led to an invitation to perform at Expo 2000 in Hannover. He continued his studies at the Royal College of Music in London. At the age of 21, he was invited to perform at the BBC Proms. He graduated from the Juilliard School in 2004.

While studying at the Juilliard School in New York City, as one of the first students to study with Itzhak Perlman, Garrett supplemented his income by working as a model. Some fashion writers have described him as “the David Beckham of the classical scene”.

In December 2007, Garrett fell after a performance at Barbican Hall in London, and smashed his rare violin, initially reported as a Stradivarius, but later corrected to having been made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini. Garrett had purchased the instrument four years earlier for USD 1 million. It was estimated that it would cost $120,000 to repair.

David Garrett Career

In 1992 Garrett started to work with the great Polish violinist Ida Haendel, who significantly influenced his artistic development. At the age of 18, David Garrett moved to New York, where he became one of the first students of Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School.

Since his childhood, David Garrett has played in all great European cities and Japan with the most distinguished orchestras and conductors, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Paris, the Mozarteum Orchester, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Staatskapelle Dresden and many others.

Partners at the music stand include Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Herbert Blomstedt, Charles Dutoit, Eliahu Inbal and Mikhail Pletnev, to name a few ones. He has played chamber music with such pianists as Itamar Golan, Daniel Gortler and Milana Cernyavska.

Among his recordings are: Mozart’s Violin Concerts with Claudio Abbado (1995); the 24 Paganini Caprices (1997), the Violin Concertos of Tchaikovsky and Conus with the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev (2001), Pure Classics as compilation of his first recordings (2002).

The album Classical Romance, which appeared in November 2009 went straight into the top ten. Here David Garrett together with the Berliner Sinfonieorchester under the baton of Andrew Litton among others recorded the Violin Concerto of Mendelssohn and own arranged compositions.

In January 2010 a successful tour with the Staatskapelle Weimar under George Pehlivanian took place with this program. In 2011, a new album was release, on which David Garrett arranged classical rock songs by Aerosmith, Nirvana or Wings on the violin.

In addition, David Garrett has held the Guinness world record since May 2008 as the fastest violinist of the world. He played the Hummelflug by Rimskij-Korsakow in 66 seconds, which means incredible 13 notes per second. Since autumn 2008 David Garrett is ambassador to UNESCO.

David Garrett age

Born on 4 September 1980, he is 42 years now