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 The
violinist Nicolás Chumachenco, of Russian descent, was born
in Poland and brought up in Argentina. He completed his
studies as a violinist in the United States with the
legendary Jascha Heifetz at the University of South
California and with Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute.
He went on to make his European débuts with awards at the
Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition and the Brussels Queen
Elisabeth.
He has appeared with Wolfgang Sawallisch, Zubin Mehta,
Ferdinand Leitner, Vaclav Smetaček, Peter Maag and Rudolf
Kempe, among others, and collaborated regularly with Yehudi
Menuhin at the Gstaad Festival. He has also performed
chamber music, notably as first violin of the Zurich
Quartet, with which he has given concerts in Europe and the
Americas. Chumachenco is Professor of Violin at the Freiburg
Musikhochschule, and since 1990 has served as
director/soloist of the Queen Sofía Chamber Orchestra.
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