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David McCarroll & Roy Bogas presented by Gualala Arts Chamber Music Series
McCarroll was born in Santa Rosa, CA in 1986 and grew up on his family's farm at the Starcross Community in Annapolis. He began studying the violin at age four. At eight years old he attended the Crowden School of Music in Berkeley. When he was thirteen he received an invitation to join an international group of sixty young music students at the Yehudi Menuhin School outside London, where he studied for five years. In 2004 McCarroll received a full scholarship to join violinist Donald Weilerstein's studio at the New England Conservatory where he received a Bachelor of Music degree in May, 2008. He is the recipient of the Presser Foundation Scholarship Award and Gunther Schuller Award.
McCarroll has appeared as a soloist with the London Mozart Players, Santa Rosa Symphony, North State Symphony, and the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in many venues throughout the U.K. including Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, and Fairfield Halls. As a recitalist and chamber musician, he has given concerts in England, Scotland, Wales, Switzerland, Tunisia, Thailand, and the United States. In the summers of 2005 and 2006, he was a participant in the Yellow Barn chamber music festival and is also a past participant of the Gstaad (Switzerland), Gower (Wales), Manchester Quartetfest (U.K.), Wyastone (Wales), and Spittalfields (London) music festivals.
In addition to music, McCarroll maintains an active interest in social concerns and is currently working on Starcross Community projects to help AIDS orphans in Africa. He has played in programs encouraging world peace promoted by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and has given benefit concerts for Doctors Without Borders. With other members of his family, he has worked to get strings to young music students in Cuba where such items are very difficult to obtain. Apart from classical music, David enjoys listening to Radiohead, The Beatles, The Kinks, Piazzolla, Roby Lakatos, and Duke Ellington among others. He loves to play soccer and is a loyal supporter of Wigan Athletic Football Academy.
Bogas received his training in New York and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony at age 14, and at age 19 he became accompanist to famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin, playing over a hundred concerts with Menuhin throughout North and South America. He has also played with Joseph Szigeti, Zara Nelsova and many other well-known artists. In 1962 he was a prizewinner at the second Tchaikovski Competition in Moscow. He has performed as soloist with virtually every orchestra in Northern California and with many other orchestras in this country and abroad. Bogas is Professor of Music at Holy Names University in Oakland, and is also Principal Solo Pianist for the San Francisco Ballet. An active chamber musician, he is the founder and director of the MasterGuild Series of chamber music concerts at Holy Names. Bogas' performances at the annual Gualala Arts July Chamber Music Weekend are noted for the "Roy Bogas and Friends" concert, with Bogas on piano and four or more outstanding musicians from the San Francisco Symphony on strings. He has also performed solo piano and accompanied other individual musicians in much loved concerts at the Gualala.Arts Center.
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LocationGualala Arts Center (View)
46501 Old State Highway
Gualala, CA 95445
United States
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