Vesko Eschkenazy

Vesko Eschkenazy has served as concertmaster of the Concertgebouw Orchestra since January 2000, following previous roles as concertmaster for both the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.

Eschkenazy studied at the National Conservatory in Sofia and with Yfrah Neaman at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is a laureate of the Wieniawski Competition in Poland (1985) and the Carl Flesch Competition in London (1988).

In 2010, he was named Musician of the Year in Bulgaria and celebrated by performing an open-air concert with the Sofia Philharmonic for a large audience in Sofia.

He has appeared as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, performing under renowned conductors like Yuri Bashmet, Colin Davis, Carlo Maria Giulini, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, and Mstislav Rostropovich.

Since his debut with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2000, Eschkenazy has frequently performed as a soloist with them. In June 2014, he led Vivaldi’s Four Seasons from the concertmaster’s chair, and in 2016, he performed as the soloist in Bach’s Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041.

Eschkenazy plays the ex-Silverstein Guarneri del Gesù from 1742, on loan from a private patron through the Concertgebouw Orchestra Foundation.

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