Violinist completes Schubert journey, launches new one for Mozart Last week, Centaur Records released the second of two recordings containing the complete works for violin and piano of Franz Schubert, as played by violinist Tomas Cotik and pianist Tao Lin. Both are veteran performers on the South Florida scene, and Cotik, an Argentinian who holds a doctorate from the University of Miami, is a member of the Florida Grand Opera orchestra and the Delray String Quartet. He’s been studying Schubert’s music for years — his doctoral dissertation was about these works — and finds himself now at the end of that particular journey. In a discussion we had a couple weeks ago at the Buenos Aires Bakery and Café in North Miami Beach, Cotik told me working on this project had been a privilege and a pleasure. Gregory Stepanich READ MORE