Master Violinist Corey Cerovsek performs with the Vancouver ...

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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