Colin Carr has found success as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher throughout his artistic career. He has played with a litany of major orchestras worldwide, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, the orchestras of Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Philadelphia, Montréal and all the major orchestras of Australia and New Zealand. Conductors with whom he has worked include Rattle, Gergiev, Dutoit, Elder, Skrowasczewski and Marriner. He has been a regular guest at the BBC Proms.

Carr first played the cello at the age of five. He enrolled in the Yehudi Menuhin School three years later, where he studied with Maurice Gendron and later William Pleeth. He became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in 1998, having been on the faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston for 16 years. In 1998, St. John’s College, Oxford created the post of “Musician in Residence” for him. In September 2002, he became a professor at Stony Brook University in New York.

Chamber music plays an important role in Carr’s life. As a member of the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio, he recorded and toured extensively for 20 years. He is also a frequent visitor to international chamber music festivals worldwide and has appeared often as a guest with the Guarneri and Emerson string quartets, as well as with New York's Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Colin is the winner of many prestigious international awards, including First Prize in the Naumburg Competition, the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Award, Second Prize in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition and also winner of the Young Concert Artists competition.

Carr’s recent releases include the complete Bach suites on the Wigmore Live label and the complete Beethoven Sonatas and Variations on the MSR Classics label with Thomas Sauer.

Website: http://www.colincarr.net/