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　1973年フランス生まれ。著名な考古学者一族に生まれ、父の赴任先であるエジプトで、５歳からヴァイオリンをはじめる。こうした来歴から、楽譜を読めるようになったのはそれより遙かに後の11歳になってから、というエピソードを持つ。パリ国立高等音楽・舞踏学院進学と当時に、多数の政治家を輩出している名門、国立行政学院（通称シャンスポ）に同時入学する。パリ音楽院ではレジス・パスキエに師事し、シュロモ・ミンツ、アイザック・スターンにも教えを乞う。１年後、シャンスポを退学したグリマルは、1967年エリザベート王妃コンクールで優勝を飾った、ラトヴィア、リガ出身のヴァイオリニスト、フィリップ・ヒルシュホルン（ヒルシュホーン, 1946-1996。なお同コンクールでは、第３位でギドン・クレーメル、第６位でジャン・ジャック・カントロフが、それぞれ入賞している）に出会う。この不世出の名匠との出会いによって、グリマルは天性の本能的なセンスを楽器に載せて謳うことを学び、ヴァイオリニストになる決意を固めた。

　ヨーロッパ、南北アメリカ大陸、アジア、オーストラリアに南アフリカと世界中で演奏し、パリ管弦楽団、ラジオフランス・フィルハーモニー、リヨン国立管弦楽団、モンテ・カルロフィルハーモニー、イギリス室内管弦楽団、ザルツブルク・モーツァルテウム、ベルリン交響楽団、リヨン歌劇場管弦楽団、アイルランド国立交響楽団、シンフォニア・ヴァルソヴィア、モスクワ室内管弦楽団、トゥルーズ・キャピトル国立管弦楽団、ストラスブール・フィルハーモニー、　ストックホルム室内管弦楽団、バイエルン室内管弦楽団、ハンガリー放送交響楽団、およびエマニュエル・クリヴィヌ、マティアス・バーメルト、ユベール・スダーン、スタニスラフ・スクロヴァチェフスキ、ローレンス・フォスター、ヤン・パスカル・トルトゥリエ、ジェームス・ジャッド、ラファエル・フリューベック・デ・ブルゴス、ハインリヒ・シフ、クリストフ・エッシェンバッハといった指揮者と演奏を披露している。また室内楽奏者とし、ボリス・ベレゾフスキー、ヴァレリー・アファナシエフ、トゥルルス・モルク、クザヴィエ・フィリップス、ジョルジュ・プルーデルマッハー、ユーリ・バシュメット、ジェラール・コセ、ミシェル・ベロフ、フランソワ・ルネ・デュシャーブル、マルク・コッペイ、アラン・プラネス、ニコラ・アンゲリッシュ、アンヌ・ガスティネル、ポール・ルイスと共演している。世界各地のフェスティヴァル出演も多く、ザルツブルクやベルリン音楽祭はじめ、ナントのラ・フォル・ジュルネ、リヨンのフラヌリ?・ミュージカル、マントン、プラド、リソールの各音楽祭などに、たびたび招かれている。また近年では、自ら創設したアンサンブル「レ・ディソナンス」での活動も活発になっている。

録音は AeonおよびHarmonia Mundi、また最近ではナイーヴ・レーベルを中心に発売。

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The French violinist, David Grimal, began playing the violin at the age of five. He won the First Prize in violin and chamber music at the Paris Conservatory in 1993. Afterwards he did his postgraduate studies with Régis Pasquier at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, he participated in several master-classes most notably those of Isaac Stern and Schlomo Mintz. His fortuitous meeting with Philippe Hirschorn, the man who was to become his mentor, was decisive both musically and in that it opened the doors to an international career. More recently, he won the European Community Prize -1996, the European Radio Union Prize -1996, and received the “Credit National" Fellowship Award. He was also honored as the Classical discovery of the MIDEM 1997.

David Grimal has performed the main European cities and around the world (Asia, Australia, the Americas and Africa). He has performed as a soloist and in chamber ensembles in Switzerland, Japan, Korea, Hong-Kong, Taiwan, New York (Lincoln Center), Vienna (Musikverein), as well as on the main stages in Paris (Theatre du Chatelet, Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Auditorium du Louvre, Radio-France ...) and in such festivals as Ravinia, The Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, Menton, Festival de Musique en mer, Radio-France Montpellier, Prades, Risor, Stavanger, Schwäbische Frühling, Colmar, Menton, les Folles Journées… He has given radio and television performances on various European channels.

As a well-acclaimed soloist, David Grimal has been invited to perform with numerous great orchestras including: the Orchestre de Paris (Christoph Eschenbach, M. Plasson), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, R. Frübeck de Burgos), Orchestre National de Lyon, Opéra de Lyon (E. Krivine), Capitole de Toulouse (Jap van Sweden), Mozarteum de Salzbourg (H. Soudan), Berliner Sinfonie (S. Sloane), Florida Philharmonic (Matthias Bamert), English Chamber Orchestra (J. Judd), Budapest, Bucarest, Basel (H. Schiff), Monte Carlo, Fondation Gulbenkian Lisbonne (Lawrence Foster) Sinfonia Varsovia (M. Schonwandt, P. Csaba) Ulster Orchestra, Dublin, Taipei, Moscow Virtuosi, Stockholm Chamber Orchestra, Warsaw Symphony, Bavarian Chamber Orchestra, I Musici di Padova, Montpellier Philharmonic, Cannes Symphony, Avignon Symphony Orchestra, and Paris Conservatory Orchestra…

David Grimal has given chamber music performances with Youri Bashmet, Boris Berezovsky, Gerard Causse, James Galway, Christoph Henkel, Paul Meyer, Karoly Moscari, Pascal Moragues, Raphael Oleg, Regis and Bruno Pasquier, Jean-Claude Penne Tier, Xavier Phillips, Roland Pidoux, Alain Planes, Emmanuel Strosser, and many others.

As a committed artist, David Grimal has founded Les Dissonances in 2004. It is a musicians' collective gathering soloists as well as chamber musicians or solos from great orchestras from all over Europe. They meet and share their passion and artistic ideal, setting up three different programmes per season.Their first disc, Verklärte Nacht by Arnold Schoenberg, Strauss Metamorphosen issued in 2007, an Ambroisie-Naïve production, earned them the triple acclaim of telerama(ffff), the BBC (BBC choice) and Arte Channel selection. Les Dissonances have already performed in prestigious seasons and have started performing in Europe.

In addition, David Grimal has enjoyed a rewarding collaboration with Georges Pludermacher in recitals over the past decade. They perform together all over the world. Their last disc "Reflection" issued in 2006 devoted to Debussy, Béla Bartók, Ravel has received large press acclaim (ffff telerama, 10 de répertoire recommandé Classica, ARTE sélection…). A new disc entitled Europa (George Enescu, B. Bartók, Janacek and Szymanovski) as well as the Sonatas and Partitas by J.S. Bach (BWV 1001-1006) for Naïve were released in 2009. Since Grimal is particularly fond of the quartet for its musical perfection, he has founded the Orfeo Quartet. They are preparing to record the complete Beethoven quartets.

David Grimal has recorded Schubert's complete sonatas with Valery Afanassiev and a disc dedicated to Dohnanyi chamber music for AEON along with Marc Coppey, Gérard Caussé and Michel Beroff (which earned them 10 in the magazine Repertoire). Franck and Srauss violin sonatas with Georges Pludermacher (Harmonia Mundi ). With his live recording of J.S. Bach's complete Sonatas and Partitas (BWV 1001-1006) for Transart he won the prestigious "strad selection"award. A film was produced by H White for Mezzo about seven pieces for solo violin written for him (Escaich, Zygel, Pauset, Tanada, Zur, Gasparov, Kissine). He is shortly to give the first time performance of a concerto written for him by Thierry Escaich with Orchestre National de Lyon as well as the first perfomance of a concerto by Brice Pauset with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Six new works for solo violin will be written for him by composers such as Hilborg, Connesson, Hersant, Fedele, Verrieres, Dalbavie.

David Grimal is regularly invited to give master-classes in Australia, Taiwan, as well as in many festivals like Pablo Casals in Prades and Les Arcs international music academy in France and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.

David Grimal plays the Ex Roederer, Stradivarius (1710) lent by Fazenda Ipiranga, Mguaranesia / MG, Brasil. He was awarded the European Culture Prize at Wiener Musikverein in 1996. France made him Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 2008.

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