Master Violinist Corey Cerovsek performs with the Vancouver ...

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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