Emil Chudnovsky, violin

Winner of top prizes at nine international competitions, Emil Israel Chudnovsky’s awards include First Prize from the XI International Curci Violin Competition in Naples, First Prize from the Young Artists Competition of the NFMC, and, most recently, First Prize from the Valsesia-Musica International Violin Competition in Milan. Twice a laureate of the “Premio Paganini” International Competition, Chudnovsky also holds Second Prize from the D’Angelo International Competition as well as prizes from the Rodolfo Lipizer International Competition, the Szeryng International Competition, and the Enescu International Competition – where he also won the Ion Voicu and the Musafia prizes.

The past two seasons have been full of debuts for Chudnovsky. On the radio, he was recently featured on NPR’s “Performance Today”, Boston’s WGBH and the UK’s BBC3. He also debuted at the Newport Music Festival of Rhode Island, a recital in Auckland, New Zealand, and with the Palm Beach Symphony Orchestra. His chamber music activity has been, if anything, more intense with concerts at Kennedy Center’s Millenium Stage, New York’s Merkin Hall, abroad at the Henselt Festival in Germany and in London’s Wigmore Hall.

Chudnovsky has performed in Great Britain, Italy, Israel, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela in recent years. During the same period, in the US he played recitals and concerts with orchestra in Washington DC, Illinois, Ohio, New York, California and Florida, including a return appearance at Carnegie Recital Hall, and a debut at the Encore Summer Festival in Ohio that gave him the unique distinction of being the only non-CIM student or alumnus invited to appear on the Festival’s Blue Ribbon series.

Releasing his first solo album, “So, What Have You Done Lately?” in 2000, Chudnovsky followed it in 2002 with a live concert recording of the Bruch and Saint-Saens #3 violin concerti. His newest CD – “The Golden Age” (JB Records) – was released in 2005, making him the first American violinist to record in China for a Chinese label. As a frequent soloist with the Israeli chamber orchestra “The King David String Ensemble,” Chudnovsky has also toured in Belgium, Turkey, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Burma, and Japan.  Committed to bringing classical music to young people and to the elderly, Chudnovsky devotes large portions of his time to outreach concerts in schools and retirement communities.

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, Chudnovsky has performed to great critical acclaim all over the world, having toured extensively in Europe, Asia, North and South America.

Emil Chudnovsky was born in Moscow, Russia to renowned violinist Nina Beilina and the late Maestro Israel Chudnovsky, the eminent opera conductor.