Violinist, Professor & Producer

Tomás Cotik is internationally recognized as a soloist, chamber musician, and professor. A highly sought-after recording artist, Dr. Cotik has released nineteen CD recordings for Naxos and Centaur Records, accumulating over five million streams and receiving more than two hundred enthusiastic reviews from the international press. Dedicated to sharing his passion for music, Dr. Cotik currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Violin at Portland State University.

Dr. Cotik has been recently honored with several prestigious awards, including the Dean’s Council Award for Research, the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Faculty Prize, three Global Music Awards, two International Classical Music Awards nominations, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a 2024 Fulbright Scholar Award for Spain. During the 23/24 season he carried out projects in Madrid, Barcelona, Murcia, Zaragoza and Livorno (Italy).

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Violinist, Professor & Producer

Tomás Cotik is internationally recognized as a soloist, chamber musician, and professor. A highly sought-after recording artist, Dr. Cotik has released nineteen CD recordings for Naxos and Centaur Records, accumulating over five million streams and receiving more than two hundred enthusiastic reviews from the international press. Dedicated to sharing his passion for music, Dr. Cotik currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Violin at Portland State University.


Dr. Cotik has been recently honored with several prestigious awards, including the Dean’s Council Award for Research, the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Faculty Prize, three Global Music Awards, two International Classical Music Awards nominations, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a Fulbright Scholar Award for Spain. During the 23/24 season he carried out projects in Madrid, Barcelona, Murcia, Zaragoza and Livorno (Italy).

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Upcoming Concert

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10 Apr 2025

Cottage Grove School Concerts

The Rooster and the Fox was a product of an ambitious collaboration between Chamber Music Amici and the talented Eugene composer and violinist Colin Pip Dixon during the COVID era. We are thrilled to present this meaningful piece for a live audience again. And of course, Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet will be a wonderful compliment to the program!

PROGRAM
Dmitri Shostakovich • Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57
Colin Pip Dixon • Chaucer’s The Rooster & The Fox: Sextet for Bassoon, Piano, String Quartet & Narrator

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"With a broad and balanced sound and great technical ability, Cotik displays well-articulated phrases, with mood contrasts, and an individualized treatment…This version of Cotik is exuberant in its beauty and greatly inspired creativity."
Sonograma
"an excellent violinist."
Michael Tilson Thomas
"NOMINATED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARDS 2018"
ICMA
"The BBC Music team’s current favourites"
BBC MAGAZINE, Niel McKimCEO
"5/5 Stars. Tomas Cotik presents a well thought-out and coherent view of this collection…in which the listener can remain acoustically engaged … never tired of listening, which clearly demonstrates the artist’s knowledgeable and intimate engagement with the material"
Pizzicato
"The CD recording is his seventeenth in ten years, yet no sign of fatigue is evident when his passion for the material translates into performances of immense appeal…Cotik invests the material with so much life. Listening to him play is never less than a pleasure, and all twelve pieces are brought vividly and expressively to life."
Textura
"another outstanding solo disc on Bach The Six Suites…Cotik’s customary details and insightful booklet essay adds to a fascinating release."
The WholeNote
"Cotik’s performance is powerful and technically brilliant, the intonation always flawless,… fearless round, and well-balanced"
CONCERTO – DAS MAGAZIN FÜR ALTE MUSIK
"…intellectual intensity and fresh characterizations that are akin to violinists like Gidon Kremer, Paul Zukofsky, and Joseph Szigeti at their best. Cotik walks a thin line between trenchant and tenuous that beckons your attention at every moment."
Classics Today
"Cotik’s performances are full of color, possess an elegant virtuosity and above all achieve the lyrical refinement that springs from a music that catches us by its rhythmic and melodic seduction"
REVISTA MUSICAL CATALANS