Ivan Stefanovic, Assistant Principal Second Violin

photo by Christian Colberg

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2010-2011
Chamber Music Performances:

September 26, 2010
November 21, 2010
March 27, 2011
April 17, 2011

Ivan Stefanovic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and began his violin studies at the age of five.  At sixteen, he came to the United States to continue his education at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with David Cerone, Victor Danchenko and David Updegraff.  He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 1989 and an Artist Diploma in 1991, both with honors, from the Cleveland Institute of Music.  In 2003, the Cleveland Institute of Music awarded him an Alumni Achievement Award “in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in the fields of Violin Orchestral and Chamber Music Performance.”

As a soloist and chamber musician, Mr. Stefanovic has won numerous first prizes in local and national competitions in Yugoslavia.  He has performed numerous times as a soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Radio and TV Belgrade and the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra.  He has made live recordings for Radio and TV Belgrade, Radio Yugoslavia and WCLV in Cleveland, in addition to numerous solo and chamber music recitals in Yugoslavia, Spain, and the United States.

Some of the reviews of his performances include:

“The surprise star was Stefanovic…breathtaking agility”-Portland Press Herald (Maine)
“Deftly virtuosic and musically compelling”-Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Golden tone and tender phrasing; Considerable technical flair”- The Baltimore Sun

Mr. Stefanovic is Principal Second Violin of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, a baroque violinist in Pro Musica Rara, and a co-coordinator and co-founder of “Chamber Music by Candlelight,” a series featuring BSO members.  He teaches violin at the Preparatory Department of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and has conducted master classes throughout the United States and Japan.

Mr. Stefanovic joined the second violin section of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 1991, moving up to third chair a year later.  In 2004, Maestro Yuri Temirkanov named him Assistant Principal Second Violin, the first person to hold that title in the history of the BSO.