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On a sofa in his suite on the fifth floor of Turin’s Golden Palace hotel, I ask how he copes with the gruelling routine. I try to do breathing meditation for sleep: that usually takes the thoughts away and relaxes my body. I don’t have any special ritual before a show. This is my life. I try to make it normal.’I don’t care about people who don’t take me seriously because of my appearance We meet the morning after his concert at the Rai Auditorium. David had swaggered onstage, glamorous in a black suit, one hand in his pocket, violin aloft in a wave, and you’d be forgiven for thinking his surname was Cassidy: the audience of mainly women – aged from 1. I met one fan beforehand: Stefania, a 2. Italian who works in IT, who had flown from Cork to be here, along with her mother, an English teacher, and 1.

Another fan tells me she has been to every concert David has given in the past three years. What is it about him that inspires such adoration? Says Stefania, ‘He always recognises the work of the orchestra and the other people playing beside him. The way he performs every song, classical or not, is unique.

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He feels the music, he reinterprets it so that he is actually shaping it in a new and unexpected way.’ And he’s a hunk, too, I add. She laughs. ‘I wanted to meet him after the show as my 1. We were told it was not possible, but I bought him flowers, and made sure they were delivered to him.’In his room, David carefully takes the violin from its case.

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Oh, it’s so small!’ I say, surprised, as its melancholic sound had filled the auditorium. That’s not something I usually like to hear,’ says David, blue eyes twinkling, placing a little cloth over its bottom, and nestling it under his chin. Does he feel it has a gender? Not really. It’s part of me.’ In 2. London’s Barbican, he slipped and fell on the case carrying his beloved £1 million 1. Guadagnini violin, cracking it in six places.

I felt I’d lost my life partner. I was just about to pay the last instalment on the loan. It was finally mine, and I broke it.’ (Repairs took seven months and cost £6. His room – bar the empty cigarette packets (in his dressing room the night before, he had smoked out of the window, waving at fans down below) – is very tidy: he’s a typical Virgo. There are no personal mementos, no groupies.

I have flats in New York and Berlin, I sometimes miss being at home because I know where things are there. I don’t care about possessions. I’ve never bought a car in my life; I’d rather collect property.’While David was resplendent in a black suit last night, today he’s in his trademark look: distressed jeans, Union Jack T- shirt, asymmetric Y Project jacket, chunky skull necklaces and rings, hair in a ponytail, strong arms covered in a tattoo that says ‘Rock and roll’. Does he have a stylist? If anybody bought me clothes it was in relationships in New York when I was in college. You know how women are when they date – “Try this on, try that on.” I wear something I feel comfortable in.

Going on stage is hard enough – a lot of people, a lot of expectations, mostly your own – so you need to find who you are, and since I never wear a tuxedo in my private life I feel like this is my clothes, something I feel sexy in. I wear it on stage because it gives me the confidence to only concentrate on music.’David on stage in Turin. White House Down Full Movie In English. Last night, having played Brahms, his encores were Bach’s ‘Sarabande’, followed by Michael Jackson’s ‘Smooth Criminal’. That was very spur of the moment. I did see some young people in the audience so I thought, “OK, I give them something to cheer them up.”’David’s speech is a seductive hybrid of clipped German and New York drawl. He is the master of the ‘crossover’ performance: he is as likely to be found performing Coldplay to a stadium of 1.

I’m not a fan of crossover – because what could be more beautiful than Bach? David explains, ‘I want families to take their kids, I want teenagers to come, I want the mid- 2. I don’t want to always stand still, I want to move with the violin!’ Why then hasn’t the notoriously snooty classical world turned its back on him? Because I’m very good at it,’ he smiles. If I’m only semi in love I’m probably not the best boyfriend When did he start dyeing his hair? I’d noticed, in the endless You. Tube footage of him – in 1.

Hamburg Philharmonic; in 1. Verbier festival – he was definitely dark. He has very black brows and stubble, and impossibly long and curly black lashes.

Right now it’s just got a lot of sun so it’s not really that bleached, but I go back and forth depending on the season. I had it quite dark for the movie I did about two years ago [he played Paganini in The Devil’s Violinist, but says of a film career, ‘I don’t think I’m made for it’].

I started dyeing it during my college years because it’s such a dull brown and I was like, “Meh! Blond could be more fun.”’I wonder if he’s vain. I try not to eat junk food, I make sure my system works: I have to make sure I’m physically good because I play a lot of shows. I travel a lot so it makes sense to maintain myself, but there is a difference between maintaining a healthy situation and being vain.

I don’t spend much time in the bathroom at all.’David’s father Georg and mother Dove at a music awards ceremony in 2. He’s always being compared to David Beckham. He’s a good- looking guy so I take that as a compliment. I did meet him once, at the GQ awards in Berlin. He has a home base so he could take his family with him.

I spend ten months not at home, so if I had a girlfriend or a wife, yes she could travel with me, but can you imagine having kids unable to go to normal school? I’m not saying that I’m thinking of doing this for the next 3.

No, I’m only going to play 3. He surprises me when he says he’s not long back from a holiday. I went at Christmas, to the Maldives. I took my mum.’Ah, his mother. A formidable, blonde American beauty, Dove Garrett (David took her maiden name, as his father’s surname, Bongartz, was deemed too foreign) was a ballet dancer who met her future husband, Georg, a lawyer, at a concert, when she came to Frankfurt to perform. David was born in Aachen, Germany, close to the borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, and started playing the violin aged four. His brother Alex, who is two years older, had already started playing, and whatever his brother had, David wanted too.

But it was David who had the talent, and when his father, who played the violin in addition to running an auction house that sold musical instruments, realised this, he took control of his son’s life. It wasn’t that my brother wasn’t talented,’ says David, ‘but he caved under the pressure, he started crying more than me.’So David began the arduous crawl to excellence: at five he was driven to Holland each weekend to study. Aged seven, he was driven six hours to Lübeck in the north every week to study under a different teacher.