Anton Sorokow
Russia
Violin
About
Anton Sorokow, professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, was born in 1978 in Moscow into a family of musicians. He began his first violin lessons at the age of four with his mother, later continuing his studies at the Moscow Central Music School and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He graduated with honors in 2004 under the guidance of Dora Schwarzberg.
He has won several prizes, including first prize at the Beethoven Competition in 1994 and the Stefanie Hohl Competition in Vienna in 1997. His career includes performances as a soloist and concertmaster with renowned orchestras such as the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also collaborated with famous conductors like Wolfgang Sawallisch and Philippe Jordan and performed with Montserrat Caballé in Moscow in 2001.
From 2003 to 2005, he was concertmaster of the Nuremberg Philharmonic Orchestra, and since 2005, he has held the same position at the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded CDs of violin concertos and released the “Four Seasons” by Vivaldi in 2023.
Since 2011, he has taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and has been leading the Fritz Kreisler Institute since 2024. Since 2013, he has been a guest professor at the University of Bicocca in Milan and co-founded the Easter Seminar in Eisenstadt.
He regularly gives masterclasses and has trained students who have secured positions in renowned orchestras.
He plays a violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù from 1741, known as “Ex Carrodus.”
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