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49 DAVID GRIMAL, ITAMAR GOLAN David Grimal David Grimal has performed in the world’s leading concert halls for thirty years now and regularly appears as a soloist with a wide range of orchestras. Many of the major composers of our time have written for him. He is also a sought-after chamber musician and a guest at the great international festivals. For the past fifteen years he has devoted part of his career to the orchestra Les Dissonances, of which he is the artistic director and founder. It is the only orchestra in the world that regularly plays the large-scale symphonic repertory without a conductor, and appears in the foremost European venues. Many traditional orchestras invite David Grimal to work with them on the model of Les Dissonances. As a natural extension of this urge to share with others, he has also created ‘L'Autre Saison’, a season of concerts to benefit the homeless in Paris. David Grimal was appointed Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 2008. He teaches the violin at the Musikhochschule in Saarbrücken and is invited to give numerous masterclasses around the world. He plays the ‘ex-Roederer’ Stradivarius of 1710, using bows by Pierre Tourte, Léonard and François-Xavier Tourte or Pierre Grunberger as appropriate to the repertory.