The Queerist

Mads Tolling, internationally renowned violinist, violist, and composer, is a member of the two time Grammy Award-Winning Turtle Island Quartet. As a soloist, he regularly tours as jazz violinist with the acclaimed bassist Stanley Clarke and his touring band. Since 2007 Mads has lead his own group, Mads Tolling Quartet. His latest recording, "The Playmaker" released in the fall of 2009, features Stanley Clarke and jazz greats Russell Ferrante & Stefon Harris.

He has performed more than 100 concerts with Clarke worldwide, including the Newport Jazz Festival and the Hollywood Bowl. In 2006 and 2008 as part of Turtle Island Quartet Mads won two Grammy Awards for Best Classical Crossover album with the recordings "4+Four" and "A Love Supreme - The Legacy of John Coltrane." Mads has performed with Paquito d'Rivera, Kenny Barron, Ramsey Lewis, Joe Lovano, Sergio and Odair Assad & Leo Kottke.