Acclaimed on five continents, ROBERT DAVIDOVCI is a virtuoso known for his spectacular technique and wide-ranging repertoire, fused with magnificent artistry and a compelling stage presence.

Born in Transylvania, Romania, Robert Davidovici began his studies with a student of the legendary David Oistrakh, subsequently studying with Ivan Galamian at The Juilliard School, where, upon graduating, he served as a teaching assistant to the famed Juilliard String Quartet. He is the recipient of several distinguished First Prize honors, among them the Naumburg International Violin Competition and the Carnegie Hall International American Music Violin Competition.

In addition to his solo engagements, Mr. Davidovici is Artist-in-Residence and Professor of Violin at Florida International University and serves as guest professor at distinguished music schools around the world, most recently at Tokyo’s Musashino Academia Musicae, the universities of Washington and British Columbia and the Australian National University. His multi-faceted career has included appointments as Concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, The Netherlands’ Residentie Orkest and Japan’s Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra and Guest Concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, as well as the orchestras of the Chautauqua, Colorado and Grand Teton music festivals. In January 2023, Mr. Davidovici performed movements from Jorge Grundman’s SHOAH for solo violin and sacred temple at the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust at Maison de L’UNESCO in Paris.

As an avid chamber musician, Robert Davidovici has collaborated with numerous esteemed colleagues, among them Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Lynn Harrell, Cho Liang-Lin, Yo-Yo Ma and Isaac Stern. Carnegie Hall has featured him as part of its “American Music Masters” series, and he was the subject of a television special on Boston’s WGBH.

Robert Davidovici’s recordings appear on the labels of CALA, Centaur, JVC, Meister Music, New World, RPO. Of special note is his 2013 world premiere recording of Paul Kletzki’s Violin Concerto with Grzegorz Nowak conducting London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, an album that also includes Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto #2 and Lutoslawski’s Partita.

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BACH, J.S.

Concerto #1 in a, BWV 1041
Concerto #2 in E, BWV 1042
Concerto in d for 2 Violins, BWV 1043

BARBER

Concerto, Op. 14

BARTÓK

Concerto #2 (1938)
Rhapsody #1

BEETHOVEN

Concerto in D, Op. 61
Concerto in C, Op. 56 (“Triple”)
Romance #2 in F, Op. 50

BENJAMIN                           

Romantic Fantasy

BERG                                     

Concerto (1935)

BERNSTEIN

Serenade (1954)

BLACHER

Concerto, Op. 29 (1948)

BRAHMS

Concerto in D, Op. 77
Concerto in a, Op. 102 (“Double”)

BRUCH

Concerto #1 in g, Op. 26

CHAUSSON

PoPme, Op. 25

DVORÁK

Concerto in a, Op. 53

FINNEY

Concerto #2

GLAZUNOV                          

Concerto in a, Op. 82

HAYDN         

Concerto #1 in C
Concerto #2 in D

HUANG         

Concerto #1 in B

KHACHATURIAN                

Concerto in d (1940) 

KLETZKI

Concerto, Op. 19 (1928)

LALO                                     

Concerto in F, Op. 20
Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21

LUTOSLAWSKI                   

Partita (1985)

MENDELSSOHN                  

Concerto in e, Op. 64

MENOTTI                              

Concerto in a (1952)

MOZART                               

Concerto #2 in D, K. 211
Concerto #3 in G, K. 216
Concerto #4 in D, K. 218
Concerto #5 in A, K. 219
Sinfonia concertante in E-flat, K. 364 

PAGANINI                            

Concerto #1 in D, Op. 6

PROKOFIEV

Concerto #1 in D, Op. 19
Concerto #2 in g, Op. 63 

RAVEL

Tzigane (1924)

SAINT-SAËNS                      

Concerto #3 in b, Op. 61
Havanaise, Op. 83
Introduction & Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28

SCHUBERT

Rondo in A 

SHOSTAKOVICH                

Concerto #1 in a, Op. 99 

SIBELIUS                              

Concerto in d, Op. 47

STRAVINSKY

Concerto in D (1931) 

SZYMANOWSKI                 

Concerto #2 

TAKEMITSU

Nostalgia

TCHAIKOVSKY

Concerto in D, Op. 35

VIEUXTEMPS                       

Concerto #4 in D, Op. 31
Concerto #5 in a, Op. 37 

VIVALDI                              

The Four Seasons, Op. 8 

WIENIAWSKI

Concerto #1 in f-sharp, Op. 14
Concerto #2 in d, Op. 22

	MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in e, Op. 64 BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 Grzegorz Nowak/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra RPO label
	KLETZKI: Violin Concerto, Op. 19 (world premiere recording) SZYMANOWSKI: Violin Concerto #2, Op. 61 LUTOSLAWSKI: Partita Grzegorz Nowak/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra RPO label
	“MÉLODIE” - THE ART OF ROBERT DAVIDOVICI Ravel: Tzigane Tchaikovsky: Mélodie, Op. 42, #3 Tchaikovsky: Méditation, Op. 42, #1 Sarasate: Habanera, Op. 21, #2                 Sarasate: Romanza Andaluza, Op. 21, #1 Tchaikovsky: Valse sentimentale, Op. 51, #6       Saint-Saëns: Introduction & Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28 Chopin/Milstein: Nocturne in c-sharp Ravel: Pièce en forme de Habanera with Etsuko Okazaki, pianist Meister Music Records (Japan): MM-1015
	THE VIRTUOSO IN THE COMPUTER AGE - COMPUTER MUSIC SERIES, Vol. 10 L. Austin: Montage Theme & Variations for Violin and Computer Music on Tape Centaur Records: CRC-2110
	WINNER OF THE 1983 CARNEGIE HALL INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN MUSIC COMPETITION FOR VIOLINISTS Piston: Sonatina Schuller: Recitative and Rondo Copland: Nocturne Aitken: Partita for Solo Violin with Steven de Groote, pianist Schoenfield: Three Country Fiddle Pieces with Paul Schoenfield, pianist New World Records: NW 334-2
	ROBERT MUCZYNSKI - CHAMBER MUSIC Piano Trio #1, Op. 24 Piano Trio #2, Op. 36 Piano Trio #3, Op. 46 String Trio, Op. 31 with Richard O’Neill, violist Carter Enyeart, cellist Adam Wodnicki, pianist Centaur Records: CRC-2634
	ILLUMINATED SHADOWS - ORLANDO JACINTO GARCÍA   Composers Recordings: CD-900
	CONYNGHAM: Southern Cross, Double Concerto for Violin, Piano & Orchestra Geoffrey Simon/London Symphony Orchestra CALA Records: CACD-1008
	CHOPIN - 11 NOCTURNES (Violin Transcriptions) No. 1, Op. 9, #1 (trans. Herman) No. 2, Op. 9, #2 (trans. Sarasate) No. 3, Op. 9, #3 (trans. Herman) No. 7, Op. 27, #1 No. 8, Op. 27, #2 (trans. Sarasate) No. 11, Op. 37, #1 (trans. Herman) No. 13, Op. 48, #1 (trans. Herman) No. 16, Op. 55, #2 (trans. Heifetz) No. 19, Op. 72 (trans. Auer) No. 20, posthumous (trans. Milstein) No. 21, posthumous with Etsuko Okazaki, pianist JVC Records (Japan): VICC-60392

He is a terrific violinist. His technique is of the ‘wow’ variety, his tone as huge as he cares to make it.

THE BOSTON GLOBE

He put his head under the knife at once, with Bach’s Unaccompanied Sonata No. 1, which he played cleanly and without affectation. Contrapuntal lines emerged clearly because multiple stops stayed in tune, and a fast, tight vibrato helped keep the music from sounding expressive in a 19th-century manner. This was, in fact. Excellent Bach.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

His performance [Barber Violin Concerto] was as close to flawless as they come, leaving the audience breathless at the close. But the high point came with the hypnotic intensity of the middle movement.

FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM

It was an emotional event at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters on the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 26 [2023]. The violinist Robert Davidovici played Spanish composer Jorge Grundman’s heart-breaking Shoah for Solo Violin, inspired, as the composer said, by Jewish children’s drawings at a Prague exhibition – the only reminders of their existence. He decided to write this piece to serve as a further remembrance.

SETTIMANA NEWS (Italy)

Robert Davidovici is a born violinist in the most complete sense of the word. His Prokofiev Concerto was played with that perfect balance of lyricism and satire that the composer himself talks about, and with sonorities that not even a Milstein has.

LA PRESSE (Montréal)

Violinist Robert Davidovici lingered lovingly over the poetic passages of Tschaikovsky’s Concerto and ignited the fiery ones with passion.

THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD (Australia)

A distinguished conductor of the 1950s and 60s noted for his eloquent Mahler performances, Paul Kletzki was a rising composer in the years between the two world wars. His Violin Concerto, written in 1928, mixes the bittersweet lyricism of Prokofiev’s two violin concertos with the heated romantic twilight of Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht. Touches of gypsy fiddling, Spanish Languor and impish wit interrupt the Neoclassical vigor of the finale. The gleaming interludes for solo violin and woodwinds are particularly ear-catching. A well-crafted, compact score with a daunting solo line, the Kletzki concerto deserves more frequent revival. Davidovici, who gave the work’s American premiere five years ago in New York, brought full-throttle virtuosity and passion to a score he clearly relishes. Grzegorz Nowak drew secure and vibrant playing from the FIU Symphony Orchestra.

MIAMI HERALD

First rate. Paul Kletzki’s Violin Concerto is the real treasure here; it appears on disc for the first time and is much more than a historical curiosity. It never suffers by comparison with the other works here.

THE GUARDIAN (London)

5/23/2024 (6:30pm)	MUSASHINO ACADEMIA MUSICAE (Tokyo, Japan) Brahms Hall Mozart: Violin Sonata # Beethoven: Violin Sonata # Franck: Violin Sonata with Etsuko Okazaki, pianist
10/6/2024 (2pm)	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Miami, FL) Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center “Beethoven, Brahms & Banter”
11/10/2024 (2pm)	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Miami, FL) Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center “Beethoven, Brahms & Banter”
1/19/2025 (2pm)	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Miami, FL) Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center “Beethoven, Brahms & Banter”
3/9/2025 (2pm)	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Miami, FL) Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center “Beethoven, Brahms & Banter”