EMMANUEL VUKOVICH
violinist, composer, artistic director, collaborative leader
“Pour moi vous êtes un grand, un vrai musicien. Merci pour ce moment inoubliable.” - Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Called “a true musician” by conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Canadian violinist, composer, artistic director and collaborative
leader Emmanuel Vukovich is emerging internationally as an artist of technical virtuosity, musical integrity and artistic
maturity. Vukovich performs as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader across North and South America, Europe
and Australia in venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Musikverein with ensembles such as the Wiener Philharmoniker &
Staatsoper and has worked with composers such as György Kurtág.
Vukovich recently released his debut solo album RESILIENCE recorded at Domaine Forget de Charlevoix by Leaf
Music and internationally renowned sound engineer Martha de Francisco, produced by HitLab Music and distributed by
Warner Music Canada. The album is inspired by the cross-cultural legacy of Béla Bartók and features the world premiere of
Resilient Earth Caprices for solo violin by Sheila Silver (composed for Vukovich), the Sonata for Violin & Piano by Dinuk
Wijeratne performed with Canadian pianist Katherine Dowling, Patina for solo violin by Zosha Di Castri and Bartók's
Solo Violin Sonata. The album also includes three of Bartók's Serbo-Croatian, Romanian and Turkish Folk Melodies
arranged by Vukovich and Canadian baritone Philippe Sly.
Inaugural recipient of McGill University’s Schulich Golden Violin Award, and Grand prize winner of the Fischoff
National Chamber Music Competition, Vukovich is first violinist of the Lloyd Carr-Harris String Quartet, Vukovich is
founder and artistic director of the Parcival Project, Resilience Project, Bach Odyssey, and Concerts Saint-Grégoire.
Vukovich performed Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Maestro Jens Georg Bachmann and the Stony Brook Symphony
Orchestra at the Staller Center for the Performing Arts and Schubert's Fantasy for Violin & Piano with pianist Andrew
Armstrong at Carnegie Weill Hall.
Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Vukovich began playing the violin with Danuta Szeryng. He completed his undergraduate
studies with Dorothy Delay and Masao Kawasaki at The Juilliard School and with Denise Lupien and André Roy at
McGill University’s Schulich School of Music where he also studied Environmental Studies at McGill University’s
School of Environment and Agriculture. He completed his Master of Music with Donald Weilerstein, Lucy Chapman
and Soovin Kim at the New England Conservatory of Music and his Doctor of Music Arts at Stony Brook University
with Philip Setzer and Eugene Drucker of the Emerson String Quartet. As a three-time recipient of The Canada
Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank, Vukovich plays on a violin crafted in 1753 by Johannes Baptiste
Guadagnini and a violin made for him by Mira Gruszow and Gideon Baumblatt in Berlin.
Program
Sonata No 1 in g minor, BWV 1001
i. Adagio
ii. Fuga
iii. Sicilienne
iv. Presto
Partita No 1 in b minor, BWV 1002
i. Allemande-Double
ii. Currenta-Double
iii. Sarabande-Double
iv. Tempo di Borea-Double
Sonata No 2 in a minor, BWV 1003
i. Grave
ii. Fuga
iii. Andante
iv. Allegro
Partita No 2 in d minor, BWV 1004
i. Allemande
ii. Corrente
iii. Sarabande
iv. Giga
v. Ciaccona
Sonata No 3 in C Major, BWV 1005
i. Adagio
ii. Fuga
iii. Largo
iv. Allegro
Partita No 3 in E Major, BWV 1006
i. Preludio
ii. Loure
iii. Gavotte & Rondo
iv. Bourée