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, a ICMA nomination, 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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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, a ICMA nomination, 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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…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
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I am happy to hear such musical polish and enthusiasm for some of my favorite pieces to play.
American Record Guide
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Cotik’s performances throughout are clean, bright and precise… you would be hard-pressed to find a more honest guide than Tomás Cotik.
Palm Beach Arts Paper
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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
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Tomás Cotik tackles these pages with a great sense of style, exhibiting a truly expressive performance in slow movements…and a very solid technique in rapid and virtuosic episodes.
GBOPERA
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NOMINATED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARDS 2018
ICMA
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I marvel at the technical skill which effortlessly encompasses these deeply contrasting styles….a technical as well as expressive master stroke
CONTEMPORARY RECORD SOCIETY
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an excellent violinist … who picks up a rigorous, natural and unusual way of understanding and interpreting music
Docenotas
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I’ve had a listen to a few alternatives…including Isaac Stern with Daniel Baremboim and Lydia Mordkovitch, but this duo pretty much ticks all the boxes
MusicWeb International
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The comparison of the 4 Seasons with the legendary recording of the Kremerata Baltica and Gidon Kremer is not quite so blatant, but in the end I still prefer the Cotik recording because of its rhythm and its colors, which are more genuine, richer and more finely differentiated than what I hear in the Kremer recordin
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