b'BIOGRAPHY David McCarroll, violin D avid McCarroll has been described by Musik Heute asa violinist of mature musicality and deep understanding. In the 2022-2023 season, he assumed the position of concertmaster with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, holding the prestigious Rachel Mellon Walton Concertmaster Chair.Launching his solo career with the London Mozart Players in 2002 McCarroll has performed concertos with renowned orchestras, including the Vienna Radio Symphony, Tonknstler-Orchester Niedersterreich, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Santa Rosa Symphony, and Philharmonie Zuidnederland. He regularly performs in major concert halls such as the Konzerthaus Berlin (Stravinsky Violin Concerto), Vienna Konzerthaus and Photo byPilvax Musikverein, Amsterdams Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Library of Congress, Kennedy Center, 92nd Street Y, and Carnegie Hall. He has also appeared on radio stations, including WGBH Boston, WQXR New York, National Public Radio, 1, BR-Klassik, and the BBC. In 2012, McCarroll won the prestigious European Young Concert ArtistsAuditions.He was born in Santa Rosa, California in 1986 and began studying the violin with Helen Payne Sloat at the age of four before attending the Crowden School of Music in Berkeley. He continued his studies with Simon Fischer at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory, and with Antje Weithaas at the Hanns Eisler Academy in Berlin. McCarroll plays a 1761 violin made by Antonio and Joseph Gagliano.BIOGRAPHY Kai Ryssdal, narrator K ai Ryssdal is the host and senior editor of Marketplace. Since joining the flagship Marketplace broadcast in 2005, Ryssdal has told stories of the world through an economic lenswhether exploring the pace of change on the ground in China or from London, making sense of Brexit for an American audience. He interviewed President Obama twice in the Oval Office and once on a folding chair in the middle of the Nevada desert.Ryssdal has been a voice of calm for listeners through two decades of economic change and crisis, from the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, the collapse of Enron, the financial crisis, the Great Recession, and the unprecedented pandemic shock to the American and global economies. Kai won a 2012 Photo by Marketplace Emmy for a PBS FRONTLINE documentary about money in politics called Big Sky, Big Money.Ryssdal spent eight years in the United States Navy.He also served in the United States Foreign Service, with postings to Ottawa, Canada and Beijing, China. Kai is a graduate of Emory University and Georgetown University. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and four children. Read more about David McCarroll and Kai Ryssdal on our website.12 Santa Rosa Symphony(707) 546-8742'