Dmitri Pogorelov, violin
Dmitri Pogorelov
Critically acclaimed violinist Dmitri Pogorelov is equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, and orchestra leader.
A seasoned orchestral performer, Pogorelov currently serves as Acting Assistant Concertmaster with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. He has worked under Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez, Sir Mark Elder, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Larry Rachleff, and Esa-Pekka Salonen as Concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony’s Civic Orchestra.
An in-demand chamber musician, Pogorelov has served as First Violinist with the Kontras Quartet. He also performed with members of Vermeer, Avalon, Miami, Amernet, Spektral, and the Fine Arts string quartets, the Lincoln Trio, Eighth Blackbird Ensemble, as well as principal players of the leading American and European orchdestras.
As a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra concertmaster Pogorelov has performed at the Chicago Symphony Center, the Ravinia Festival, Carnegie Hall, Paul Hall of the Juilliard School, the Kennedy Center, Jordan Hall of the New England Conservatory, and has also been featured on CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, WBEZ and WFMT Chicago. Dmitri has collaborated with renowned jazz and bluegrass artists – Branford Marsalis, the Kruger Brothers, and Steve Martin. Pogorelov can be heard on recordings of chamber music by Gunther Schuller, Yehudi Wyner, Eric Ewazen, Kevin Volans, Dan Visconti, and Jens Krüger.
Pogorelov holds degrees in music performance from Northwestern (DMA), DePaul (MM), and Lynn (BM) universities, having studied with Gerardo Ribeiro, Ilya Kaler, Elmar Oliveira, and Sergiu Schwartz.
Pogorelov plays the “Radetzky” David Tecchler violin ca. 1720, on loan to him through the generosity of an anonymous donor.
Critically acclaimed violinist Dmitri Pogorelov is equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, and orchestra leader.
A seasoned orchestral performer, Pogorelov currently serves as Acting Assistant Concertmaster with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. He has worked under Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez, Sir Mark Elder, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Larry Rachleff, and Esa-Pekka Salonen as Concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony’s Civic Orchestra.
An in-demand chamber musician, Pogorelov has served as First Violinist with the Kontras Quartet. He also performed with members of Vermeer, Avalon, Miami, Amernet, Spektral, and the Fine Arts string quartets, the Lincoln Trio, Eighth Blackbird Ensemble, as well as principal players of the leading American and European orchdestras.
As a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra concertmaster Pogorelov has performed at the Chicago Symphony Center, the Ravinia Festival, Carnegie Hall, Paul Hall of the Juilliard School, the Kennedy Center, Jordan Hall of the New England Conservatory, and has also been featured on CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, WBEZ and WFMT Chicago. Dmitri has collaborated with renowned jazz and bluegrass artists – Branford Marsalis, the Kruger Brothers, and Steve Martin. Pogorelov can be heard on recordings of chamber music by Gunther Schuller, Yehudi Wyner, Eric Ewazen, Kevin Volans, Dan Visconti, and Jens Krüger.
Pogorelov holds degrees in music performance from Northwestern (DMA), DePaul (MM), and Lynn (BM) universities, having studied with Gerardo Ribeiro, Ilya Kaler, Elmar Oliveira, and Sergiu Schwartz.
Pogorelov plays the “Radetzky” David Tecchler violin ca. 1720, on loan to him through the generosity of an anonymous donor.
