Donald Grant is a classical violinist from the United Kingdom, brought up in RoyBridge in Lochaber and now based in Sheffield. He is a member of the Elias Quartet and The Unfurrowed Field.

Career

Grant works with a wide range of musicians, including Catriona McKay, Kate Rusby, Roy Bailey, Alistair Anderson, Luke Daniels, Jenna Reid, The Geoff Gascoyne Project and Nicola Benedetti. He also attends Feisan nan Gaidheal and Sabhal Mor Ostaig, and he wins prizes more than once at the National Mod in Scotland and at the Pan Celtic Festival in Ireland.

Performances and festivals

He performs at major UK venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Queen’s Hall, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, the Sage, Bridgewater Hall and the Southbank Centre. He also appears at festivals such as Celtic Connections, Cambridge Folk Festival, Oxford Folk Festival, and the Belfast, Cheltenham and Bath festivals, and he has performed in France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden and the United States.

Solo work

His debut solo album is The Way Home, which is produced by Seamus Egan of Solas. The album features mostly self-written material, along with long-term collaborators, a Gaelic song co-written with his father and sung by Karen Matheson of Capercaillie, and the string section Red Skies.