Hailed by Michael Tilson Thomas as “an excellent violinist,” Tomás Cotik is internationally recognized as a soloist, chamber musician, and professor. A much sought-after recording artist, Dr. Cotik has released seventeen CD recordings for Naxos and Centaur Records, which have received over four million streams and more than two hundred enthusiastic reviews from the international press. Committed to passing on his passion for music, Dr. Cotik is the violin professor at Portland State University. Recent awards include a Dean’s Council Award for Research, the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Faculty Prize, a Fulbright Scholar Award for Spain and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant.
Hailed by Michael Tilson Thomas as “an excellent violinist,” Tomás Cotik is internationally recognized as a soloist, chamber musician, and professor. A much sought-after recording artist, Dr. Cotik has released seventeen CD recordings for Naxos and Centaur Records, which have received over four million streams and more than two hundred enthusiastic reviews from the international press. Committed to passing on his passion for music, Dr. Cotik is the violin professor at Portland State University. Recent awards include a Dean’s Council Award for Research, the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Faculty Prize, a Fulbright Scholar Award for Spain and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant.
a new way of looking at, understanding and perceiving music from different eras
SONOGRAMA MAGAZINE
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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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Argentinean violinist Tomás Cotik… is not just another violinist. He is a passionate musician who always seems to get under the skin of the music he performs
THE ART MUSIC LOUNGE
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Tomás Cotik’s deeply analytical playing adds to an exhilarating display of the musical wonders the composer saw in the violin
GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE
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We encounter here an extraordinary violinist, with an overwhelming technique and a musicality; the results are excellent, with little or nothing to envy the greatest interpretations that could have ever been recorded.
RITMO MAGAZINE
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there is no question but that this is the most exciting rendition of these works I’ve ever hear… this is now my benchmark performance of these works
THE ART MUSIC LOUNGE
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The BBC Music team’s current favourites
BBC MAGAZINE, Niel McKim
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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
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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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I marvel at the technical skill which effortlessly encompasses these deeply contrasting styles….a technical as well as expressive master stroke
