Caroline Dale

Born in Middlesbrough, England, Caroline Dale began at an early age a career as a classical cellist, trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London and then with Pierre Fournier in Geneva. Revealed as a teenager by the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 1978, she has pursued a career moving between chamber repertoire, orchestras and collaborations outside the strictly classical field. Caroline Dale has played with the Nigel Kennedy Quartet, the Balanescu Quartet, the Apollon Piano Trio, the Scottish Ensemble and the London Chamber Orchestra, before taking the position of solo cello with the English Chamber Orchestra and the London Metropolitan Orchestra. Her playing, rooted in the classical tradition yet adaptable to more contemporary contexts, has led her to work with pop and rock artists such as Peter Gabriel, David Gilmour, Sinéad O’Connor, Oasis, U2 or David Gray. Caroline Dale also regularly appears in film music, notably on scores by Dario Marianelli, Klaus Badelt or Ilan Eshkeri, with contributions heard in Pride and Prejudice (2005), Come Back to Me (2007) or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Under her name she published Such Sweet Thunder in 2002, while the Ghostland project, led with John Reynolds and Justin Adams, extended from the late 1990s a body of work at the crossroads of strings, contemporary textures and acoustic writing.