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CARR, Colin

He begins his lessons of cello at the age of five and integrates, three years later, Yehudi Menuhin School where he studies with Maurice GENDRON and with William PLEETH. Later, he will practice through the planet so much as musician that professor.

Soloist, Colin CARR played with orchestras such as Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia, BBC Philharmonic, and orchestras of Los Angeles, Washington, Philadelphia and Montreal. He(it) twice went in Australia and concertos in South Korea, in Hong-Kong, and in New Zealand. The recitals brought him in big cities such as London, New York and Boston.

Member of Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio, he registers(records) and gives representations for twenty years before creating the formatio Sequenza. Invited in festivals of music of room(chamber) worldwide, he(it) also played with Quartet Guarneri and Emerson as well as to the Chamber Music Society of New York. Colin CARR received numerous international prices(prizes) among which the first prize of Naumburg Competition, the price(prize) Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial, and the second Prize Rostropovitch International Cello Competition.

He was named a professor to Royal Academy of Music in 1998, after sixteen years of teaching profession at the University of Boston and at New England Conservatory. The same year, the Saint Of John College of Oxford has create a post for him and since September, 2002 he teach the Stony Brook University of New York.