Two-time Grammy Award-winning violinist Mads Tolling has been called ”the most exciting musician I have come across in the past ten years” by Stanley Clarke, with whom he played for many years. Originally hailing from Denmark, Mads moved to the US when he was twenty to study jazz at the Berklee College of Music. For nine years he was a member of the Turtle Island Quartet, whose John Coltrane album won the quartet their second Grammy for Best Classical Crossover.
Photo by Chuck Gee
Mads has also performed with the likes of Chick Corea, Kenny Baron, and Paquito D’Rivera. In addition to touring internationally as a performer, he is a dedicated educator, teaching at home in Berkeley’s Jazzschool Institute, as well as all over the US and Canada.
Offside is very proud to present the Mads Tolling Quartet, playing both original compositions and new arrangements of music by Jean-Luc Ponty and John Coltrane. Joining Mads will be Offside favorites Eric Garland on drums and George Ban-Weiss on bass, and on guitar, Dave MacNab, who has the distinction of being the only musician playing in two different ensembles in this year’s festival!
