Violinist, Professor & Producer

Hailed by Michael Tilson Thomas as “an excellent violinist,” Tomás Cotik is internationally recognized as a soloist, chamber musician, and professor. A highly sought-after recording artist, Dr. Cotik has released seventeen CD recordings for Naxos and Centaur Records, accumulating over four 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 violin professor at Portland State University. Dr. Cotik has been honored with several prestigious awards, including the Dean’s Council Award for Research, the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Faculty Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a Fulbright Scholar Award for Spain. During the 23/24 season he will reside in Madrid and also do projects in Barcelona and Zaragoza.
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Violinist, Professor & Producer

Hailed by Michael Tilson Thomas as “an excellent violinist,” Tomás Cotik is internationally recognized as a soloist, chamber musician, and professor. A highly sought-after recording artist, Dr. Cotik has released seventeen CD recordings for Naxos and Centaur Records, accumulating over four 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 violin professor at Portland State University. Dr. Cotik has been honored with several prestigious awards, including the Dean’s Council Award for Research, the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Faculty Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a Fulbright Scholar Award for Spain. During the 23/24 season he will reside in Madrid and also do projects in Barcelona and Zaragoza.
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It is in excellent hands with the violinist Tomás Cotik… because a musician of great size is ‘talking’ here, as witnessed by his earlier recordings, which extend from Telemann, Bach and Schubert to Piazzolla. Thanks to the idiomatic touch, Cotik really makes this music swing, but he also knows how to hit the lyricism in the slow parts. This is ‘entertainment’ on a high level
Opus Klassiek
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…nothing challenges Cotik, who uses a Baroque bow to lovely effect…The booklet essay says that “every note of these often complex pieces lies perfectly, if not easily, [my italics] under the bow.” Well, yes – if you’re as superb a player as Tomás Cotik.
The Whole Note
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The BBC Music team’s current favourites
BBC MAGAZINE, Niel McKim
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Cotik sounds consistently brilliant
STRINGS MAGAZINE
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Cotik plays with a resonant, clear and warm tone, and dynamics, phrasing and tempi are all perfectly judged
THE WHOLE NOTE
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His latest album…may be his finest achievement yet, at least rivalling his 2019 account for that label of Bach’s Complete Sonatas and Partitas. Cotik’s Telemann is impressive on all fronts as a technical achievement that will spur the interest of other performing artists and for a sensual beauty that should appeal strongly to listeners everywhere. Cotik performs all this music, and more, with such style and flair that he almost makes a daunting task seen easy.
Atlanta Audio Club
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Cotik phrases this music with such feeling, making you wonder if it could possibly sound better in any other performance.
Classical Net
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Cotik never indulges in violinistic brilliance at the expense of music, but he sounds consistently brilliant nevertheless.
Fanfare 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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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