Tomas Cotik

Recently named first violinist of the Harrington String Quartet, Tomas Cotik teaches on the faculty of West Texas A&M University and is the concertmaster of Amarillo Symphony Orchestra.

As a chamber musician he has played recitals in Germany, Holland, Canada, USA, Argentina and Japan. He participated in more than 15 international music festivals in Europe and worked under the guidance of the Vermeer, Tokyo, Vogler and Endellion String Quartets, as well as notable artists, including Midori, Christian Tetzlaff, Ana Chumachenko, Heinz Holliger, Leon Fleisher and the leaders of Vienna, Berlin, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland and San Francisco Symphony.

A former member and rotating principal of the New World Symphony, Tomas Cotik holds a Bachelor and Master in Music from the Freiburg University of Music in Germany and an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould School in Toronto. He studied with Nicolas Chumachenco and Lorand Fenyves.

He has performed with several internationally prominent conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas, Valery Gergiev, Roberto Abbado, Yakov Kreizberg, Marin Alsop, Stephan Deneve, and Robert Spano.

Tomas is a first prize winner at the National Broadcast Music Competition in Argentina in 1997 and the Government of Canada Award for 2003-2005.