Colin Carr appears throughout the world as soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher. He has played with 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, has twice toured Australia, and has played concertos in South Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia and New Zealand. Memorable performances include the Dvorák Concerto to close the Prague Autumn Festival, and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, with Sir Colin Davis conducting, at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

In recent seasons Carr has performed cycles of Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano with Thomas Sauer throughout the United States and in England and France. Other recent highlights include performances of Don Quixote in Germany, Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 in Korea, the original version of the Rococo Variations in Holland, Shostakovich Concerto No. 2 in the U.S. and the Elgar Concerto with the Hallé Orchestra and Mark Elder. He has also given several cycles of the Bach Suites in London, at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York and the Gardner Museum in Boston.

As a member of the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio, he has recorded and toured extensively for 20 years. He is a frequent visitor to international chamber music festivals worldwide, has appeared often as a guest with the Guarneri and Emerson string quartets and with New York’s Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and gives regular recitals in London, New York and Boston.

Carr’s GM recordings of the unaccompanied cello works of Kodaly, Britten, Crumb, and Schuller, as well as the Bach Suites, have been highly acclaimed, as was his recording of Brahms Sonatas with pianist Lee Luvisi on Arabesque. He was the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic for a BBC Music Magazine recording.