David Garrett
David Garrett started to learn the violin at the age of four. He made his first public appearance aged 10 and at 13 he became the youngest artist to be awarded an exclusive record deal with Deutsche Grammophon.
David has released several award-winning core classical albums and his latest album, Rock Symphonies, is a selection of arrangements of his favourite rock anthems.
Articles by David Garrett
A Day in the Life of David Garrett – Part Five
By David GarrettIn David’s final video blog for Classic FM, you can hear him warming up before a big French TV show.
A Day in the Life of David Garrett – Part Four
By David GarrettAnother intimate and revealing insight into the violinist’s life, we hope you’ll enjoy David’s penultimate video blog…
A Day in the Life of David Garrett – Part Three
By David GarrettDavid Garrett, en route to Paris, talks frankly about his jetset lifestyle, revealing that he spends almost the entire year in hotels.
A Day in the Life of David Garrett – Part Two
By David GarrettIn the second of our series of video blogs by superstar violinist David Garrett, filmed on his way to catch the Eurostar, he tells us about his priceless Strad violin and dealing with a tricky customs official. Check back for more videos all this week.
David Garrett playing tracks from Rock Symphonies
A Day in the Life of David Garrett – Part One
By David GarrettDavid Garrett invited us to follow him to see what he gets up to in a normal day. We chose a day when he would be in London, doing promotion for his latest album Rock Symphonies. Then his ever-packed schedule changed and we ended up following him from London to Paris (it’s a hard life!).



