With her recordings praised as “heartbreakingly beautiful” (Scene Magazine), “a sweeping experience” (Pizzicato), “full of emotions” (Crescendo Magazine), Hungarian-born violinist Orsolya Korcsolan concertmaster of the Anna Rothschild Ensemble Wien has established herself as one of the most versatile violin players and teachers of her generation. Her technical command and warm, compelling sound, combined with her spirit and elegant stage presence have captured audiences around the world since her debut in New York. Her latest release 'Silenced' is available Worldwide on Deutsche Grammophon.
She also recorded the Concerto for Violin Horn and Shofar by Grammy Nominee composer Miguel Kertsman with conductor Dennis Russell Davis and the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Naxos America. Highlights of her upcoming season include Kurt Weill’s Concerto for Violin at the Wiener Musikverein. As a chamber musician, Ms Korcsolan has performed with artists such as Grammy nominee clarinet player David Krakauer, and with mandolin player Avi Avital – a Grammy nominee, Echo Award winner, and Deutsche Grammophon artist. She has shared the stage with distinguished conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Valeri Gergiew and Michael Tilson Thomas.
As a soloist, she gave the Hungarian premiere of Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Concerto Funebre at the Budapest Music Center and Adam Kondor’s 2nd Concerto for Violin at ORF-Austrian Broadcasting Company. She has served as an ambassador for the Jewish Summer Festival in Budapest, as the artistic advisor and artist-in-residence for the Vienna Jewish Cultural Festival, Artist in Residence for the Jewish Cultural Festival Budapest and took part in the "Missing Links" concert series at the Holocaust Memorial Centre and regular guest artist at the Exil Arte Zentrum Vienna.
Committed to education and sharing her passion for music, Ms Korcsolan holds regular international masterclasses. She is also the founder and director of the Musikschule in Wien im Palais Palffy where she works with the next generation of exceptional young violinists in Vienna. Ms Korcsolan graduated with distinction at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, in the class of Eszter Perenyi and Geza Kapas. She continued her studies at The Juilliard School in New York with Dorothy DeLay and Itzhak Perlman where she received her second Master of Music DEGREE. While in New York, she won both the Dorothy DeLay and the Cornelius Vander Starr Awards.