EMIL CHUDNOVSKY

EMIL CHUDNOVSKY, First Prize winner at the 11th International Curci Violin Competition in Naples, Italy, is also a laureate of the Paganini International Competition and the Szeryng International Competition. He also holdsd First Prize from the Young Artists Competition of the National Federation of Music Clubs, Second Prize from the D'Angelo International Competition and various prizes from other national competitions, as well as numerous scholarships and awards.

Mr. Chudnovsky began concertizing at the age of eleven, with a solo performance on Uruguayan television and in concert with the Montevideo Chamber Orchestra. The same year, he was featured in a series of live radio broadcasts from the Mostly Mozart Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. Since then, he has performed to critical acclaim all over the world, having toured extensively in Europe, Asia, and both North and South America. His 2000/01 season included tours of Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Austria, Italy, Israel, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Japan and the USA. He released his first solo CD entitled So, What Have You Done Lately? in 2000 with two additional CDs due out soon.

As a frequent soloist with the Israeli chamber orchestra The King David String Ensemble, Emil Chudnovsky has toured the USA, Israel, Belgium, Turkey, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Burma and Japan. In the USA, in addition to recitals and concerts with orchesrtas such as the Astral Chamber Orchestra, the Bachanalia Chamber Orchestra, the Fairfax Symphony and the Williamsburg Symphonia, he is committed to bringing classical music to both young people and the elderly.

An enthusiastic collaborator, Chudnovsky formed the violin-guitar duo Diecicorde during his concerts in Italy in 2000 with Italian guitarist Sandro Torlontano. Prior to that, he created The Three Violinists together with the multiple competition prize winners, Andrew Haveron of Great Britain and Florin Croitoru of Romania. Designed to expand the appeal of classical music, the debut of this unique collaboration ayttracted extraordinary media attention and was sold out weeks in advance. The Three Violinists concert recording, recently released on CD, was featured on WQXR's Young Artists Showcase and Robert Sherman's nationally syndicated radio program On First Hearing. Highlights from that CD have been aired abroad on Voice of America, Kol Israel, and New West Radio, and the violinists involved appeared on ABC-TV, WGMS and WBJC Radio.

In addition to his many solo appearances on American television and radio, Emil Chudnovsky's foreign media credits are extensive. His live performance of the Beethoven Concerto on Italy's RAI Television with the Alessandro Scarlatti Orchestra was hailed by the press as "exuberant and extraordinarily musical (with) a strong artistic instinct that literally sets his performances on fire." He has appeared on nationwide Italian television on the Maurizio Costanza Show, in live radio broadcasts from Vienna's Razumowsky Palace, and live on Russian tekevision, the Canadian Broadcasting Company and the Voice of America.

In Canada and the United States, Emil Chudnovsky has performed in such major halls as New York's Carnegie (Weill) Recital Hall and Merkin Hall; Montreal's Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur; Washington's National Academy of Sciences; and the Dag Hammerskjold Auditoriumn at the United Nations. Notable among his US recitals was the world premiere of Mark Kopytman's Dedication, and of Philip Lasser's Vocalise in both composers' versions for violin and string orchestra. In addition, Chudnovsky gave the US premiere of the Basner Violin and Piano Sonata and the world premiere of the Felzer Violin Sonata at Carnegie (Weill) Recital Hall, as well as premieres of works by young composers such as Inessa Zaretsky, Matthew Halper and Marcus Barcham-Stevens.

Emil Chudnovsky's many tours of South America have taken him to Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Allegre, Sao Paulo, Montevideo, and Santiago where he was featured soloist with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile. Other foreign tours included performances at Jerusalem's Henry Crown Symphony Hall, and recitals at the Rubin Academy, the Israel Museum, and at Hebrew University, among others. He has given recitals in Budapest and at the International Festival of Gyor; performed with the Lanka Philharmonic; and in recital at the Alliance Francaise in Columbo. Notable among his Italian appearances were concerts with the Budapest Chamber Orchestra during the Festivale Barocco di Viterbo at the Palazzo Dei Papi, and in recitals in Rome, Pescara, Celano, and Milan. In Russia he has appeared in a series of concerts encompasssing the complete violin and piano works of Brahms. Those concerts in Moscow, Tverj, Orel, and St. Petersburg won plaudits from critics and audiences alike.

Emil Chudnovsky was born in Moscow to renowned violinist Nina Beilina and the late Maestro Israel Chudnovsky, and eminent conductor of opera. In 1976, mother and son emigrated to the United States where Emil began his violin studies at the Mannes College of Music Preparatory Division. Having studied at The Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music, he holds degrees from both Yale University and the Mannes College of Music.

Recently, Belgium's Le Soir lauded Chudnovsky's "Brilliant sensitivty...extreem intensity...undebniable technical ability and a grand presence." The Jerusalem Post has written of "his remarkable gifts...brilliant tone, virtuoso technique and sensitive lyricism."

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