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02/23/2007
World-class musician Corey Cerovsek
takes pleasure in visiting Ventura residents often
to compose, perform at Ventura Music Festival
Sponsored by the
San Buenaventura Foundation for the Arts and Mr. and
Mrs. Al and Michele Sakharoff of Ventura, master violinist
Corey Cerovsek will perform with famed conductor and
Ventura Music Festival Artistic Director Nuvi Mehta
at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at the Ventura
High School Theatre. The Festival Orchestra will accompany
him in a delightful evening celebrating French composers.
Nominated for a 2007 Grammy® Award for the Chamber
Music recording of Corigliani's Sonata for violin
and piano, Cerovsek's graceful mastery of the violin,
thoughtful interpretations and dramatic stage presence
has earned him a loyal international following over
the last 15 years. His stylistic flexibility and
passionate enthusiasm have attracted the attention
of conductors such as Mehta, Dutoit, Tilson Thomas,
Jarvi, Litton, Levi, Pinnock, Comissiona, Davis,
Comet, Lopez-Cobos, Leppard and Alsop.
Supporting Corey Cerovsek in his endeavors as he
takes the stage at venues around the world is a joy
for Ventura residents Al and Micheline Sakharoff,
who spend time traveling between Ventura, Boston
and Paris to applaud him whenever possible. It was
10 years ago when the Sakharoff's first sponsored
Cervosek as a musician and heard him play at one
of the early Ventura Music Festival concerts where
he was a featured musician.
“We loved Corey immediately, " Micheline says. “He stayed
at our home during the Ventura Music Festival many, many years ago and still
stays with us, even coming to visit when he is not touring or performing. He
loves Ventura, loves to bicycle, compose and study here…it’s the
perfect place to him.”
“Corey is a very fine artist and really is a genius. He is very charming
and pleasant; we are very much taken up with him,” Micheline says. “Al
and I have adopted him like a grandson and we are grateful for such an enriching
relationship.”
Currently living in Paris, Cerovsek just completed
new recordings of Beethoven in Switzerland. Micheline,
having had a sneak-preview, says the recordings are
amazing. When the CD is released in France, Cerovsek
will be touring, promoting his latest work.
“When Corey plays, his music…it is so hard to describe,” Micheline
says. “It transports me. He plays with such passion and there is a lot
of him in the music. He has a wonderful technique, but it is so much more than
that. Al and I have many opportunities to see him perform. We are like his
groupies!”
About Corey Cerovsek
Born in 1972 in Vancouver, Canada, Cerovsek
began violin studies at the age of five. He graduated
at age 12 from the University of Toronto’s Royal
Conservatory of Music and that same year was accepted
by Josef Gingold as a student and enrolled at Indiana
University, where he received bachelors degrees in
mathematics and music at age 15, masters in both at
16, and completed doctoral course work in mathematics
and music at age 18.
He has performed in the United States with orchestras
of Philadelphia, San Francisco, Detroit, Cincinnati,
St. Louis, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Buffalo,
Baltimore, Colorado, Phoenix, San Diego, Denver,
Kansas City, and Utah, as well as the New World Symphony,
and internationally with the Israel Philharmonic,
Iceland Symphony, Prague Symphony, National Symphony
(Ireland), Hong Kong Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest
of the Hague, Berlin Symphony, Sydney and Melbourne
Symphonies, Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto Symphonies
and National Arts Centre Orchestra (Canada), Bournemouth
Symphony, Sjaellands Symfoniorkester (Denmark), Vienna
Chamber Orchestra, and the Montpellier Festival Orchestra
(France), among others.
Cerovsek appears regularly at the Kennedy Center
in Washington, D.C., the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum in Boston, and Italy’s Spoleto Festival.
Other recital credits include Lincoln Center’s
Walter Reade Theatre and the Frick Collection in
New York, SUNY Purchase, the Place des Artes in Montreal,
the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra “Debut
Series,” Wigmore Hall in London, the Cemal
Resit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul, the Kuhmo Festival
in Finland, and the Spoleto Festival in Charleston.
He has toured Australia, Canada, Denmark, Japan,
China, Austria, the Netherlands, and Spain.
On the television front, Corey has been featured
twice on NBC’s Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
and Jay Leno, on the David Frost Show in England,
on the PBS special Musical Encounters and on CBS’s
Sunday Morning. His recording Corey Cerovsek Plays
Wieniawski with pianist Katja Cerovsek for the Delos
label received critical acclaim. Additional releases
on the Delos label include Mozart Adagios and Russian
Soul, both with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra.
For additional information or questions, please contact
CMS Info Services (805) 983-3495 x111. For concert
tickets, call the Ventura Music Festival Office at
(805) 648-3146. Photos are available upon request.
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