Marc Bouchkov

Belgian violinist Marc Bouchkov was born in 1991 and had his first violin lessons from his grandfather Matthis Vaitsner at the age of five. In 2001 he was admitted to Claire Bernard’s class at the Lyons Conservatory and transferred to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris and Boris Garlitsky in 2007. 

Marc Bouchkov has already won many internationally acclaimed prizes and awards. He won first prize in the Henri Koch International Violin Competition (2008), the Young Concert Artists European Auditions (2010) and the Montreal International Musical Competition (2013). After being awarded the Ebel promotional prize in 2011, the following year he was a finalist in the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. 2016 he received the “Lotto-Förderpreis” of the Rheingau Musik Festival. In 2019 he was awarded second prize at the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition.

His orchestral appearances included performances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mariss Jansons, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and Philippe Jordan, HRSinfonieorchester and Christoph Eschenbach, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala and Lorenzo Viotti, the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, the Verbier Festival Orchestra under Gábor Takács-Nagy, and the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra under Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider. He has also appeared with the NDR-Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI in Turin, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra di Milano Giuseppe Verdi among others, collaborating with conductors such as Stanislav Kochanovsky, Michael Sanderling, Andrey Boreyko, Ludovic Morlot, Dmitry Liss, Christian Arming, Lionel Bringuier, Maxim Vengerov, James Judd, to name but a few.

As a keen chamber musician, Marc Bouchkov receives invitations to Hamburg, Montpellier, Zurich, Colmar, St. Petersburg and Montreal as well as to festivals like the Heidelberger Frühling and the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. In October 2016 he gave his debut at Wigmore Hall London where he was awarded with the London Music Masters award.

In the fall of 2017 the first album of Marc Bouchkov was released with works by Ysaÿe, Chausson and himself. The album was produced as part of the new harmonia#nova series by harmonia mundi andwas awarded a Diapason Découverte and nominated for the ICMA 2018.

Marc Bouchkov is sponsored by Brigitte Feldtmann, who has provided him with a violin by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris, 1865.

From 2014 to 2017 Marc Bouchkov studied at the Kronberg Academy with Mihaela Martin. These studies were funded by the Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff Scholarship. From 2017 to 2019 he has been holding a position as Artistic Training Assistant at the Kronberg Academy Study Programmes. Since 2018, Marc Bouchkov has been guided by Eduard Wulfson. He teaches as professor for violin at the Conservatoire Royale de Liège.