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Radio Interview at WNDA 88.9 FM with Orlando Suarez on Latin Jazz Quarter on December 20th, 2013

WDNA interview about the release of Tango Nuevo

Interview with Freddy Castro on January 31, 2014

Interview (Spanish): Piazzolla, Tango Nuevo on Ideal Radio International, 1020 AM WURN

Radio Educación: Grabe quien grabe, Oct. 2022 Tomás Cotik: Telemann. 12 Fantasías for violin solo

Grabe quien grabe

Radio Educación: Grabe Quien Grabe

Argentine violinist Tomás Kotik has lived in many different places around the globe, most recently in Madrid doing residencies and finishing various projects. One of those projects is a new release celebrating the music of Astor Piazzolla. It’s called Piazzolla Buenos Aires.

New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher, American Public Media - Tomas Cotik

New Classical Tracks: Tao Lin & Tomas Cotik - Franz Schubert

Thursdays @ Three | All Classical Portland

Argentinean-born violinist Tomás Cotik and Chinese-American pianist Tao Lin follow their critically acclaimed Tango Nuevo [8.573166] with more of Piazzolla’s richest and most exciting compositions. These fresh adaptations for mostly two or three musicians preserve and celebrate the Nuevo tango master’s legacy. ‘I think that lovers of tango music will definitely want this fascinating disc’, wrote Fanfare of Tango Nuevo.

Adapted by Tomás Cotik and Osvaldo Calo

Tomás Cotik, Violin • Tao Lin, Piano
Jeffrey Kipperman, Double Bass
Alex Wadner, Bradley Loudis, Percussion
Alfredo Lerida, Voice

Recorded: 18–21 December 2014 at Gusman Concert Hall, Coral Gables, USA. Producers: Alejandro Sánchez-Samper and Tomás Cotik • Recording engineer: Edward Stalzer. Editor, Mix and Mastering Engineer: Alejandro Sánchez-Samper • Assistant editing and mix engineers: Carlos Patiño, Luis Alejandro Castillo, Joel Iglesias and Adestin Grant • Booklet notes: Fernando González. Violin: Marc de Sterke (2000) • Bow: Eugene Sartory, c. 1893/94 • Piano: Steinway D. Cover painting: The 4 Seasons by Sebastian Spreng.

New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher

Minnesota Public Radio - New Classical Tracks: Tomas Cotik offers a big slice of Piazzolla

Violinist Tomás Cotik (toh-MAHSS ko-TEEK), Assistant Professor of Violin at Portland State University, was born in Argentina.  But that doesn’t mean that he grew up loving the tango.  It took living in another country – Germany, to be exact – to develop that love for his home country’s signature musical style.  Mr. Cotik chats with music director John Pitman about his latest CD, “Legacy” which celebrates Argentina’s native son, Astor Piazzolla.

The conversation incorporates some scintillating selections from “Escualo” (which means shark, or Dogfish), Vardarito (dedicated to a musician who greatly influenced the young Piazzolla), and the Argentine composer’s Four Seasons in Buenos Aires, as much a depiction of the people and culture of that “megopolis” (Tomás’s word for his native city), as it is the times of the year.  A thrilling follow up to Mr. Cotik’s earlier Naxos CD, “Tango Nuevo”.

John Pitman's CD Reviews - All Classical Radio Porltland

Violinist Tomas Cotik, Assistant Violin Professor at Portland State University, is also an internationally-renowned concert and recording artist.  He has done extensive study of fellow Argentine Astor Piazzolla, in several acclaimed recordings (Naxos); a complete series of Schubert’s violin works (Centaur); and now the violin sonatas of Mozart.

Mr. Cotik has been a guest in All Classical Portland’s studios on a number of occasions, including live performances on Thursdays at Three, and he’s a welcome and familiar face here at the radio station.  In my chat with Tomas (click on player, above), we talk about his process of acquiring just the right edition of the score, to exploring Mozart’s development from the composer’s visit to Paris (1778, age 22), to his final years in Vienna.  These violin sonatas reflect his audience’s tastes (in Paris, Mannheim and Vienna), and his own stylistic growth and maturity.  Mr. Cotik, along with longtime piano partner Tao Lin, carry us through Mozart’s life in these works with great sensitivity, verve and expression.

Interview about Mozart Violin Sonatas Recording

Naxos Podcast with an interview in Spanish and music from my latest CD release is already on air and available for free on the following platforms: https://naxos.lnk.to/musicaclasica

Naxos Esto es Musica Clásica: Tomas Cotik Plays Bach

Hailed by Michael Tilson Thomas as "an excellent violinist," Tomas Cotik was a first-prize winner at the National Broadcast Music Competition in his native Argentina in 1997, and the winner of the Government of Canada Award for 2003-2005. An avid recording artist, Dr. Cotik is currently involved in more than a fourteen CD recordings for Naxos and Centaur Records, which have received over a hundred reviews and the highest praise from some of the best-known publications such as Fanfare, American Record Guide, Downbeat, and MusicWeb International. These recordings include Schubert’s complete works for violin and piano (nominated as recording of the year by Musicweb International), an album with Cotik’s own arrangements of music by Piazzolla (described by the critics as “among the very best”), a solo CD that includes a world premiere recording of original works by Franz Schubert and an upcoming release of Mozart’s 16 sonatas on a 5 CD set. He has worked extensively with producers such as Blanton Alspaugh and Judith Sherman and also produced four recordings himself. Cotik has performed with several internationally prominent conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas, Valery Gergiev, Roberto Abbado, Yakov Kreizberg, Marin Alsop, Stephan Deneve, Roger Norrington, and Robert Spano in notable venues such as Carnegie Hall.

Tomas Cotik has performed hundreds of recitals and chamber music concerts across the globe.  Since 2011, he is a member the Cotik/Lin duo. He was also a member of the acclaimed Amernet, Delray, and Harrington string quartets. He was a rotating concertmaster with the New World Symphony and a leader with various other orchestras in the United States and abroad.

Tomas Cotik earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Miami. He holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Freiburg University of Music in Germany and an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould School in Toronto. He has worked closely with artists such as Joseph Kalichstein, Franklin Cohen and members of the Cleveland, Miami, Pro Arte, Vogler, Vermeer, Tokyo and Endellion string quartets.

Committed to passing on his passion for music, Dr. Tomas Cotik was appointed Assistant Professor of Violin at Portland State University in 2016. He previously taught at West Texas A&M University, Florida International University, and at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music.


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