New York-based violinist Mark Feldman has been using a DPA 4099V clip instrument mic for performances with the John Abercrombie Quartet at international concerts and jazz festivals, including The Montreal Jazz Festival.
DPA designed its 4099 range for musicians who want to ensure the best sound quality from their instruments whenever they play, and Feldman joins a list of performers including Sting, saxophonists Wayne Shorter and Bobby Ricketts, trumpet player Randy Brecker and violinist Nigel MacLean, who have adopted the 4099 with great results.
Feldman himself owns a valuable antique violin, a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume made in Paris in 1862. He was more than happy to use the 4099V microphone’s gentle mounting accessory to attach it to his instrument.
“The DPA 4099V attaches to my violin very easily in just a few seconds, and has never damaged the delicate antique varnish,” says Feldman. “It captures and reproduces every nuance of my violin so precisely. I love this mic. The sound is amazing; engineers often comment that my acoustic sound and my amplified sound are practically identical. With the DPA 4099V I know that what I hear is exactly what the audience hears.”
Feldman, who has won a Grammy Certificate for his Performance with Michael Brecker and was the 2007 recipient of The Alpert Award in the Arts, is a renowned violinist whose styles encompass classical, jazz and improvisation. As a studio musician in New York he has recorded with Diana Ross, Carole King, Cheryl Crow and the Manhattan Transfer among many others. While living in Nashville, Feldman was a member of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and recorded with Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Swaggart and Jerry Lee Lewis, and was a member of the touring ensembles of Loretta Lynn, Ray Price and George Strait. The Kronos Quartet commissioned and performed one of his string quartets, and he has appeared as a violin soloist with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the WDR Radio Orchestra of Cologne, the Het Brabants Orkest of Eindhoven Holland and the WDR Jazz Orchestra, playing concertos written for him to perform. Currently he often performs with John Zorn, John Abercrombie and Sylvie Courvoisier.
