Master Violinist Corey Cerovsek performs with the Vancouver ...

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December 13, 2011
Master Violinist Corey Cerovsek performs with the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Vancouver, BC – Violinist, mathematician, and pianist, Vancouver-­‐born Corey Cerovsek makes his
welcome return to perform Korngold’s Violin Concerto with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on
Saturday, Sunday and Monday, January 7 th , 8 th , and 9 th at the Orpheum Theatre. Rossen Milanov,
Music Director of The Princeton Symphony Orchestra, conducts
"Soloist Corey Cerovsek offered another model of expressive nuance in Barber's Violin Concerto,
handsomely accompanied by Diemecke. Cerovsek played with precision and eloquence, pure in tone and
sure in motivation. In encore he delivered a dazzling account of Kreisler's Recitative and Scherzo."
-­‐ Los Angeles Times
Born in Vancouver, Canada, and now residing in Paris, Corey Cerovsek began playing the violin at the
age of five. After early studies with Charmian Gadd and Richard Goldner he graduated at age 12 from
the University of Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music with a gold medal for the highest marks in
strings. That same year, he was accepted by Josef Gingold as a student and enrolled at Indiana
University, where he received bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and music at age 15, masters in both
at 16, and completed his doctoral course work in mathematics and music at age 18.
Corey Cerovsek’s technique and interpretive skills place him among the leading violinists of his
generation. While his precocity as a child/teen allowed him to achieve such phenomenal success as a
student and performer, the kind of success that elicits awe and utterances of "genius."
Masterworks Diamond
Saturday and Monday, January 7 & 9, 8pm, Orpheum Theatre
Debussy, Korngold & Berlioz
Rossen Milanov conductor
Corey Cerovsek violin
Debussy Prélude á l’après midi d’un faune
Korngold Violin Concerto
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Violinist, mathematician, and pianist, Vancouver-­‐born Corey Cerovsek makes his welcome return to
perform Korngold’s Violin Concerto. Debussy’s beautiful, impressionist Prelude to the afternoon of a

fawn, and Berlioz’s Romantic, opium-­‐inspired ode to unrequited love round out what is sure to be a
truly fantastic concert.
TICKET INFORMATION:
Tickets: $26.75 -­‐ $84 (senior, student and subscriber discounts available)
Tickets available online at www.vancouversymphony.ca or by calling VSO customer service at
604.876.3434
Symphony Sundays
Sunday, January 8, 2pm, Orpheum Theatre
Debussy, Korngold & Berlioz
Rossen Milanov conductor
Corey Cerovsek violin
Debussy
Korngold
Berlioz
Prélude á l’après midi d’un faune
Violin Concerto
Symphonie Fantastique
TICKET INFORMATION:
Tickets: $21.50 -­‐ $59 (senior, student and subscriber discounts available)
Tickets available online at www.vancouversymphony.ca or by calling VSO customer service at
604.876.3434
BIOGRAPHIES
Rossen Milanov –Conductor
Rossen Milanov’s place as “one of the most-­‐promising figures in the upcoming generation of
conductors” (The Seattle Times, February 2009) has recently been recognized with his appointment as
music director of The Princeton Symphony Orchestra. In addition, this season he makes a series of
international debuts including National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, Rochester Philharmonic,
Hyogo Symphony, Japan, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, and China Philharmonic. And he
continues to serve as Artistic Director of The Philadelphia Orchestra at The Mann Center for the
Performing Arts.
A committed supporter of youth and music, Milanov is Music Director of both the New Symphony
Orchestra, a privately-­‐funded youth orchestra in his native city of Sofia, Bulgaria, and Symphony In C,
one of the USA’s leading professional training orchestras. With The Curtis Institute he conducts one
production per season, most recently Argento’s Postcard from Morocco (released on CD); and this
season he returns to Carnegie Hall for LinkUP!, a programme supported and promoted by The Weill
Music Institute. He has led a tour with the Australian Youth Orchestra, concerts with the Aspen Chamber
Symphony and was Music Director of the Chicago Youth Symphony from 1997 to 2001.
A well-­‐known figure in North America, this season Milanov returns to San Antonio Symphony,
Milwaukee Symphony and has recently led subscription concerts with the Baltimore, Indianapolis,
Seattle, Charlotte and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras. Other re-­‐invitations for this season include
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Royal Scottish National Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Royal Swedish Opera.
He has also worked with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, The Saint Paul
Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Orchestra of Komische
Oper, Berlin, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and works regularly with
the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.
His ongoing relationship with The Philadelphia Orchestra has included critically acclaimed concerts at
the orchestra’s summer series at Mann Center, at the Bravo! Vale Valley Music Festival and in
subscription concerts at Kimmel Center, including performances of Adams’s Violin Concerto with Leila
Josefowicz, Saint-­‐Saëns’s Cello Concerto with Yo-­‐Yo Ma, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 and the world
premiere of Nicholas Maw’s English Horn Concerto.
As an opera conductor, Rossen Milanov’s recent performances of La bohème with the Philadelphia
Orchestra both at Mann Center and at Bravo! were received with critical acclaim. He has worked with
the legendary Bulgarian bass Nikolai Ghiaurov; and in 2008, as Chief Conductor of the Bulgarian National
Radio Orchestra, led the orchestra in a European tour featuring the international star mezzo-­‐soprano
Vesselina Kasarova.
His recording of works by the Russian composer Alla Pavlova with the Moscow Philharmonic is available
on the Naxos label; and a live performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 is available though
Philadelphia Online.
Mr Milanov studied conducting at the Juilliard School (where he received the Bruno Walter Memorial
Scholarship), the Curtis Institute of Music, Duquesne University and the Bulgarian National Academy of
Music. He has received the Award for Extraordinary Contribution to Bulgarian Culture, awarded by the
Bulgarian Ministry of Culture, and in 2005 was chosen as Bulgaria’s Musician of the Year.
2009/10 season
Corey Cerovsek-­‐ violinist
Corey Cerovsek has performed to constant acclaim with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Charles
Dutoit, Michael Tilson Thomas, Neeme Järvi, Andrew Litton, Yoel Levi, and Jesús Lopez-­‐Cobos. His North
American performances have included those with the orchestras of Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco,
Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Atlanta, Baltimore, Montreal, Vancouver, and Toronto, among many
others; and internationally with such groups as the Israel Philharmonic, Iceland Symphony, Prague
Symphony, National Symphony (Ireland), Hong Kong Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest of the Hague,
Berlin Symphony, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide Symphonies (Australia), Bournemouth Symphony,
Sjaellands Symfoniorkester (Denmark), Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestre de Poitou-­‐
Charentes and Montpellier Festival Orchestra (France). He has toured in Australia, Canada, Denmark,
Japan, China, Austria, the Netherlands, Brazil and Spain.
In recital, Mr. Cerovsek has performed throughout the world, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum (Boston), the Kennedy Center (Washington), Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theatre and the
Frick Collection (New York), the Place des Arts (Montréal), Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco),
Wigmore Hall (London), Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall (Istanbul), the Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris), and
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l’Espace Gianadda (Martigny). He is also an avid chamber musician, regularly appearing at the festivals
of Verbier (Switzerland), Kuhmo (Finland) and Tanglewood (USA).
His 2008 Claves label recording of the Wienawski 2nd Violin Concerto and Vieuxtemp’s 5th Concerto
with Lausanne Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu was received with great acclaim. This
recording followed the 2006 release on Claves of the complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano of
Beethoven with pianist Paavali Jumppanen, which received numerous awards, including Gramophone
Recommends, 5 Diapasons, 4 stars from Le Monde de la Musique, Supersonic Pizzicato, and Fono Forum
Stern des Monats, and the Miderm Award for best chamber music recording for 2008. His Corigliano
Violin Sonata, with Andrew Russo on the Black Box label, was nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award.
Corey Cerovsek Plays Wieniawski, made with pianist Katja Cerovsek for the Delos label, also received
much critical acclaim. Other recordings have been released on the Delos, Black Box, Aguavá New Music
Studio, and Cala Records labels.
Mr. Cerovsek’s 2010-­‐11 season includes return engagements at the New West Symphony, Edmonton
Symphony, and Syracuse Symphony; and recitals for Chamber Music San Francisco, Jacksonville’s
prestigious Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens and Palm Beach’s Society of the Four Arts.
In the summer of 2009, Mr. Cerovsek returned to the Festival International de Lanaudiere performing
the Korngold Concerto with the Montreal Symphony under the direction of Julian Kuerti. In North
America in 2009-­‐10 he returned to the Indianapolis Symphony to perform the Stravinsky Concerto with
Hannu Lintu conducting.
He has been featured twice on NBC’s Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, on the David Frost
Show in England, on the PBS special Musical Encounters and on CBS’s Sunday Morning.
Born in 1972 in Vancouver, Canada, and now residing in Paris, Cerovsek began playing the violin at the
age of five. After early studies with Charmian Gadd and Richard Goldner he graduated at age 12 from
the University of Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music with a gold medal for the highest marks in
strings. That same year, he was accepted by Josef Gingold as a student and enrolled at Indiana
University, where he received bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and music at age 15, masters in both
at 16, and completed his doctoral course work in mathematics and music at age 18. Concurrently he
studied piano with Enrica Cavallo, until 1997 frequently appearing in concert performing on both
instruments.
Corey Cerovsek performs on the “Milanollo” Stradivarius of 1728, an instrument played, among others,
by Christian Ferras, Giovanni Battista Viotti, and Nicolò Paganini.
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