Violinist Corey Cerovsek’s graceful mastery of the violin, thoughtful interpretations and dramatic stage presence have earned him a loyal international following over the last 15 years. His stylistic flexibility and passionate enthusiasm have attracted the attention of conductors such as Mehta, Dutoit, Tilson Thomas, Järvi, Litton, Levi, Pinnock, Comissiona, Davis, Comet, Lopez-Cobos, Leppard, Venzago and Alsop.

He has performed in the United States with the orchestras of Philadelphia, San Francisco, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Baltimore, Colorado, Phoenix, San Diego, Denver, Kansas City, and Utah, as well as the New World Symphony, and internationally with the Israel Philharmonic, Iceland Symphony, Prague Symphony, National Symphony (Ireland), Hong Kong Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest of the Hague, Berlin Symphony, Sydney and Melbourne Symphonies (Australia), Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto Symphonies and National Arts Centre Orchestra (Canada), Bournemouth Symphony, Sjaellands Symfoniorkester (Denmark), Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and the Montpellier Festival Orchestra (France), among others.

In recital, Cerovsek has performed throughout the United States and Canada. He appears regularly at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and Italy’s Spoleto Festival. Other recital credits include Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theatre and the Frick Collection in New York, SUNY Purchase, the Place des Artes in Montreal, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra “Debut Series,” Wigmore Hall in London, the Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul, the Kuhmo Festival in Finland, and the Spoleto Festival in Charleston. He has toured Australia, Canada, Denmark, Japan, China, Austria, the Netherlands, and Spain.

In September of 2006, Cerovsek recorded the Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano with pianist Paavali Jumppanen for the Claves label. He performed at the Verbier Festival in July of 2006 as well as at the Montreal Symphony playing Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy with the orchestra at the Festival International de Lanaudiere in Joliet, Quebec, Canada. In the fall of 2006, he made his debut with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood performing Bach’s E Major Concerto. He performed Paganini 1st Concerto with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland, returned to the Edmonton Symphony and, for a third year in a row, returned to the Vancouver Symphony where he played and conducted the orchestra in performances of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.  The 06-07 season also included the Syracuse and West Virginia Symphonies and performances with the Louisville Orchestra and a return to Boston’s Isabella Gardner Museum in recital.

Cerovsek’s 05-06 season included returns to the orchestras of Vancouver, West Virginia, Salt Lake, Buffalo, Boulder, Little Rock, and  Kitchener-Waterloo as well as recitals in New York, Boston, Carmel, Lancaster, PA, and Rockford, IL. In Europe he returned to the Verbier Festival and performed in Luebeck, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland.

On the television front, Cerovsek 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. His recording Corey Cerovsek Plays Wieniawski, made with pianist Katja Cerovsek for the Delos label, received critical acclaim. Additional releases on the Delos label include Mozart Adagios and Russian Soul, both with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra.

Born in 1972 in Vancouver, Canada, Corey began his violin studies at the age of five. At age nine, he won the grand prize over 3,000 other musicians in the Canadian Music Competition. 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 performs on the “Milanollo” Stradivarius of 1728, an instrument played, among others, by Christian Ferras, Giovanni Battista Viotti, and Nicolò Paganini.