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Emanuel Borok, Concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra since 1985, has had a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral leader. Before coming to Dallas, Mr. Borok served for 11 seasons as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Concertmaster of the Boston Pops Orchestra.
Born and trained in the Soviet Union, Mr. Borok received his early musical instruction at the re-known Darzinya Music School in Riga, Latvia, and the Gnessin School of Music in Moscow. In 1964 he became prizewinner of the most important National Violin Competition in the former Soviet Union. In 1971, he won the position of Co-Concertmaster in the Moscow Philharmonic. Since emigrating to the West in 1973 Emanuel Borok has made many solo appearances in Israel, Canada, France, Italy, Norway, Venezuela, Mexico, Switzerland, Holland and throughout the United States, including Carnegie Hall. His solo appearances have included the Bach Double Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with Pinchas Zukerman and Brahms's Double Concerto with Janos Starker, Concerto appearance at the famed Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona Italy; His chamber music partners include such distinguished artists as Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell, and Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman and Christopher Hogwood, Joshua Bell, Ralph Kirshbaum, Cho-Liang Lin and Paul Neubauer. Emanuel Borok was also featured in the Distinguished Artists Recital Series at the 92nd Street Y in New York. In 1999 he was nominated for the Grammy Award for his recording with the Dallas-based new music ensemble Voices of Change. Mr. Borok has recorded the Shostakovich Violin Sonata with Tatiana Yanpolsky (a recording that received a four-star rating from the Penguin Cassette Guide), the solo part of Vivaldi's Four Seasons with musicians from the Boston Symphony (named “Best of the Month” by Stereo Review Magazine), and Beethoven's Archduke Trio with pianist Claude Frank and cellist Leslie Parnas (a recording honored by “Ovation” magazine). Mr. Borok's most recent recording entitled “A Road Less Traveled” released to critical acclaim on the Eroica label includes seldom performed concertos by Joseph Haydn. Mr. Borok has published a book of original cadenzas for all five Mozart Violin Concertos with Theodore Presser Co. In addition to his highly active performing life, Borok has established himself as an internationally recognized teacher having taught at the Tanglewood Music Center; the Academia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy; and the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland; Royal Conservatory and Academy of Music in London, Conservatoire de Paris and the Academy of Music in Prague. In the summer of 2005 he was invited to teach at the famous Verbier Festival in Switzerland. Emanuel Borok currently serves on the faculty of the University of North Texas. |
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