Autobiography

David Garrett has worked hard for his way to the violin Olympus. His childhood was marked by discipline and daily work together with his father. He encouraged his talent, supported him and at the same time was an ambitious motor and drive. At the age of ten, David Garrett was already on stage with the greatest international orchestras and later, as a teenager, he played all the important works of classical music until, in his early twenties, he freed himself from the straitjacket of his prodigy existence and went to study in New York.

There he laid the foundation for a new genre of classical music, crossover, in which he combined virtuoso violin music with current pop music - making him better known than ever before. In this way, he embodies in an almost exemplary way the arduous search of a young person for his own path and true life, and finds his very own solution to this problem: complete devotion to what could just as easily have destroyed him as a person - music.

Vita

Having picked up his first violin at age 4, DAVID GARRETT studied with Zahkar Bron and Ida Haendel to name a few.
His extraordinary, multifaceted talent was spotted early on: as a child prodigy, DAVID GARRETT made his stage debut at the age of 10 and became the youngest-ever artist to sign with the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon at the age of 13. As a child he worked with conductors legends like Zubin Mehta, Claudio Abbado and Yehudi Menuhin. At the age of merely 15 he recorded all 24 of Paganini’s Caprices – doubtlessly some of the most challenging pieces ever written for violin. Yehudi Menuhin has even praised him as “the greatest violinist of his generation”.
At this very point of his career, he opted for honing and broadening his skills, enrolling at the world-famous Juilliard School in New York: he become a student of Itzhak Perlman.
After his graduation and continuing to this day DAVID GARRETT has been working with the most exceptional conductors in the classical field such as Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Riccardo Chailly, and Andrés Orozco-Estrada.
In addition, he plays with the most distinguished orchestras such as the Wiener Symphoniker, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Filharmonica della Scala, RAI Turin, Accademia di Santa Cecillia, Russian National Orchestra, and Israel Philharmonic.
The years 2023/2024 are dominated by his current classical album ICONIC, which was released by Deutsche Grammophon on 4 November 2022. It reached number 4 in the German album pop charts. An extraordinary success for a classical album. It also receives the Golden Record and the Opus-Klassik 2023 as "Bestseller of the Year". DAVID GARRETT goes on tour internationally with this classical repertoire and gives 113 concerts on 5 continents until June 2024.

Within his now more than 10 years of international crossover career, DAVID GARRETT outdid himself over and over again. A Paganini among pop stars and a Jimi Hendrix among violinists, DAVID GARRETT is the “Devil’s Violinist” of our age, an international superstar who blurs the lines between Mozart and Metallica. With his programmes “Explosive” and “Unlimited” DAVID GARRETT is touring worldwide. The most impressive concert from the Baths of Caracalla in Rome on July 24, 2022 was broadcast by ZDF and ARTE.
Praised for pioneering the modern crossover trend as well as his exceptionally virtuous playing, DAVID GARRETT is equally at home at performing the most intricate classical compositions with the world’s leading conductors and orchestras as well as the most crowd-pleasing stadium rock hits. He combines rock star charisma with the kind of virtuosity innate only to the best instrumentalists of our time. Admired by all of his fans around the world, DAVID GARRETT has sold millions of tickets so far, sold over 4,5 million albums and more than 5,65 billion career streams worldwide and earned 25 gold and 17 platinum awards in places as diverse as Hong Kong, Germany, Mexico, Taiwan, Brazil, Singapore, and many others.
In 2013 DAVID GARRETT celebrated his debut as an actor in the role of Niccolò Paganini in the movie "The Devil's Violinist".
In 2022, his autobiography "IF YOU ONLY KNEW" was published in German, English, Italian and other languages. In Germany, the autobiography reached number 2 of the SPIEGEL Bestseller List non-fiction.
In 2023 DAVID GARRETT releases the piano concerto "One World" together with John Haywood
In 2024 DAVID GARRETT makes his debut as a conductor with his piano concerto "One World" as part of the Interlaken Classics Festival.
DAVID GARRETT plays the Stradivari "Ex Busch" (1716) and the "Pugnani" Guarneri del Gesù (1734) as well as the Guarneri del Gesù "Baltic" from 1731.