Emil Chudnovsky is an expert teacher with twenty years’ experience teaching violinists of all levels, from beginners to advanced competition-level performers. A graduate of Yale University (Certificate of Performance) and the Mannes College of Music in New York (Bachelors of Music), Mr. Chudnovsky is a nine-time international competition winner and laureate. An experienced soloist, he has recorded six CDs and performed concerts and recitals in over 30 countries.
A former faculty member at Catholic University, and at the Kirov Academy of DC, Mr. Chudnovsky has also been invited to give master-classes at Pepperdine University in California, the Schwob School of Music in Georgia, and at South Dakota State University, as well as at many schools in Florida and Maryland. Abroad, he has conducted master-classes in South America, New Zealand, China and Japan, and taught at the CIVEBRA Festival in Brazil, Mexico’s San Miguel de Allende Chamber Music Festival, the Summit Music Festival in New York, and the InterHarmony International Music Festival in Italy.
Mr. Chudnovsky continues to be sought out as a juror for local, regional, and international competitions. He has been a judge for the National Federation of Music Club’s competition, repeatedly served on the jury of the Chengdu International Competition in China, and has been a judge at top area school competitions as well as for the state level of the MTNA violin competition and the ASTA Strings Festival.
Mr. Chudnovsky’s students have won admission to the New England Conservatory, Juilliard, Peabody, Rice University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Jacobs Music School at Indiana University, the Central Music School in Moscow, the Mannes College of Music in New York, and many others. They have also repeatedly won top prizes in the Washington Performing Arts Society’s prestigious Feder Competition, and have been national finalists of the MTNA National Junior Strings Competition and at the Hilton Head Concerto Competition. In area competitions, they have won and been finalists in the U.S. Army Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition, the Potter Violin Company-Gretchen Hood Competition, the Landon Concerto Competition, the DC Youth Symphony Concerto Competition, the James C. Macdonald Arts Competition, the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra’s Dorothy Farnham Feuer Memorial String Competition, , the Lions of Virginia Bland Music Scholarship Competition, the Owings Mills Young Artist Competition, the Young Artists’ Awards of the City of Gaithersburg, the ASTA Solo Strings Festival, and at the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic competition.
Mr. Chudnovsky’s students have performed as soloists with orchestras in the greater DC area, including concerto appearances at the Kennedy Center. They have won auditions and principal seats in the area’s top youth orchestras, including all of the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras, the DCYO, the CYSO, the AYP youth orchestras, as well as for Virginia and Maryland All-State and All-County orchestras. In recital, his students have performed in Russia, Bulgaria, Taiwan and locally at such prestigious venues as the Russian Embassy and the Ukrainian Embassy, as well as in special appearances before His Majesty, the King of Norway and before His Excellency, the Ambassador of Romania.