Mads Tolling, an internationally renowned violinist and composer, is a two-time Grammy Award-Winner and the 2016 DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star Violinist. As a former nine-year member of both Turtle Island Quartet and Stanley Clarke’s band, Mads has spent most of his professional life touring internationally. Mads has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition,and his recordings have received rave reviews in Downbeat Magazine, Strings Magazine, The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle. He has performed live with Chick Corea, Ramsey Lewis, Kenny Barron, Leo Kottke, Sergio & Odair Assad and Paquito D’Rivera.

For just the second time Mads will be appearing in a new duo format with pianist Frank Martin. Frank has been a long-time member of Sting’s “Rainforest Band,” and he has worked with everybody from Ramsey Lewis to BB King. Frank was one of the first musicians Mads met, when he moved to the Bay Area, as he recorded on an album Frank produced back in 2004.

Mads and Frank will present music from the US to Brazil to Denmark and beyond, and they will sprinkle in a few originals as well.