Prof. Anton Sorokow, first concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and full professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, was born in Moscow in 1978 into a family of musicians. He received his violin lessons at the age of four with his mother. From the age of ten studied at the Moscow Central Music School with Yevgenia Chugaeva. He moved to Vienna in 1991 and became an Austrian citizen in 1996. He continued his studies in 1991 at the University of Music and Performing with Prof. Dora Schwarzberg, he graduated with distinction in March 2004. In 1996 he was selected as scholar at the Isaac Stern Workshop in Verbier (Switzerland).
After having been professor for violin and MuK Vienna from 2008-2011 he has been appointed in 2011 as professor for violin at mdw Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Vienna.
His students have gained numerous positions in the most renowned European orchestras (e.g. Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony) and have also won major prizes in international music competitions, including the Fritz Kreisler Competition, Johannes Brahms Competition, Vaclav Hummel in Zagreb, Valsesia Musica, Anton Rubinstein in Düsseldorf, Osaka International Competition.
Anton Sorokow performs regularly with renowned orchestras such as the Wiener Symphoniker, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Nuremberg Philharmonic Orchestra, Nuremberg Symphony, Janàcek Philharmonic Orchestra of Ostrava, the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic, the Vienna Concert-Verein, the Philharmonia Orchestra London and the Montpellier Symphony Orchestra.
Solo appearances have led to collaborations with conductors such as Wolfgang Sawalisch, Georges Prêtre, Mstislav Rostropovich, Myung Whun Chung, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philippe Jordan, Omer Meyer Wellber, Kent Nagano, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Franz Welser-Möst, Fabio Luisi. In the summer of 2007, he recorded a CD of important violin concertos by Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Kabalevsky with the Vienna Classical Players and in 2023 the recordings of Antonio Vivaldi "Four Seasons" with the Vienna Concertverein Chamber Orchestra for the Austrian National Bank.
Among numerous other awards, Anton Sorokow received the 1st Prize and special prize at the Beethoven Competition in the Czech Republic (1994) as well as 1st prizes at the Stefanie-Hohl-Competition in Vienna (1997) and at the Romano-Romanini-Competition in Brescia (1999).
Since 2013 he has also been a visiting professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca. He has also been invited to the juries of several international competitions. Master classes in Les Arcs sur Argens (South of France) and in Sozopol (Bulgaria) as numerous master classes (including the Kilkenny Arts Festival in Ireland) and summer courses in Europe and Asia. Since 2013, he has also been a visiting professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca.
He has also been appointed to the juries of several international competitions a teaches master classes in Les Arcs sur Argens (South of France) and in Sozopol (Bulgaria) as a co-founder and numerous other master classes (including the Kilkenny Arts Festival in Ireland) and summer courses in summer courses in Europe and Asia.
Anton Sorokow plays a violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, Cremona 1741, called "Ex Carrodus" from the collection of Österreichische National Bank.
