Anton Sorokov

Anton Sorokow ( Russian Антон Леонидович Сороков , German Anton Leonidowitsch Sorokow ; born September 30, 1978 in Moscow ) is a Russian violinist and violin teacher active in Austria . In 1993 Anton Sorokow was granted Austrian citizenship because of special services to the Republic of Austria.

Career

Sorokow received his first violin lessons at the age of four from his mother, the violinist and music teacher Marina Sorokowa . His father is the violinist and music teacher Leonid Sorokow . From the age of ten he studied at the Moscow Central Music School with Evgenia Tschugajewa. He completed his studies with Dora Schwarzberg , which he continued in 1991 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , with honors in March 2004. In 1996 he was selected to take part in the Isaac Stern workshop in Verbier (Switzerland), for which he received a scholarship.

Anton Sorokow has performed with the Vienna Symphony , Berlin Symphony , Nuremberg Philharmonic , Nuremberg Symphony , Sung-nam Philharmonic, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic , the Vienna Concert Association , the Philharmonia Orchestra London , the Montpellier Symphony Orchestra and the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra , the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Solo appearances led to a collaboration with the conductors Mstislav Rostropovich , Fabio Luisi , Myung Whun Chung , Ulf Schirmer , Lior Shambadal , Philippe Auguin and Alexander Shelley . A highlight in 2001 was a joint appearance with Montserrat Caballé in front of an audience of 5,000 in Moscow's Gostiny Dvor Arcade .

In summer 2007 CD recordings of important violin concertos by Bach , Beethoven , Tchaikovsky and Kabalewsky were made with the Vienna Classical Players for the Oesterreichische Nationalbank . From 2003 to 2005 he was 1st concertmaster of the Nuremberg Philharmonic at the State Theater in Nuremberg. Since 2005 he has been 1st concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra . From 2008 to 2011 he taught at the Vienna Conservatory, private university ; since 2011 he has been a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He was also appointed to the juries of international competitions and invited to master classes at home and abroad.

Awards

Sorokow received first prize and special prize at the Beethoven competition in the Czech Republic (1994) as well as first prizes at the Stefanie Hohl competition in Vienna (1997) and the Romano-Romanini competition in Brescia (1999).

Web links

• Literature by and about Anton Sorokow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Anton Sorokow