Mag. Anton Sorokow, Professor and Head of the Fritz Kreisler Institute at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, was born in Moscow in 1978 into a family of musicians. He received his first violin lessons at the age of four from his mother. From the age of ten, he studied at the Moscow Central Music School with Jewgenia Tschugajewa.

In 1991 he moved to Vienna and became an Austrian citizen in 1996. He continued his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Dora Schwarzberg, graduating with distinction in March 2004.

In addition to numerous other awards, Anton Sorokow won First Prize and a Special Prize at the Beethoven Competition in the Czech Republic (1994), as well as First Prizes at the Stefanie Hohl Competition in Vienna (1997) and the Romano Romanini Competition in Brescia (1999).

As a soloist and concertmaster, his artistic development was shaped by collaborations with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and the Nuremberg Philharmonic Orchestra, where he served as Principal Concertmaster from 2003 to 2005. A decisive influence on his artistic path was his encounter with Isaac Stern in Verbier, whose musical guidance and support he enjoyed over several years.

Further artistic highlights include appearances with the Berlin and Moscow Symphony Orchestras and collaborations with distinguished conductors and musicians such as Wolfgang Sawallisch, Georges Prêtre, Philippe Jordan, Myung-Whun Chung, Kent Nagano, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Mstislav Rostropovich, Franz Welser-Möst and Fabio Luisi. In 2001 he performed together with Montserrat Caballé before an audience of 5,000 at the Gostiny Dvor Arcade in Moscow.

From 2005 to 2025, Anton Sorokow served as Principal Concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. In 2007 he recorded major violin concertos by Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Kabalevsky with the Vienna Classical Players; in 2023 he recorded Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” with the Wiener Concert-Verein on behalf of the Austrian National Bank.

From 2008 to 2011 he taught at the Vienna Conservatory Private University. Since 2011 he has been Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and since 2024 he has served as Head of the Fritz Kreisler Institute. He has been a Guest Professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca since 2013 and is co-founder of the Eisenstadt Easter Seminar as well as the masterclasses in Les Arcs-sur-Argens (France).

He regularly performs as a chamber musician and gives international masterclasses, including at the ISA Summer Academy of the mdw, the Allegro Vivo Festival in Horn, the World String Music Festival Vienna and the NYCMF in Norway. He is frequently invited to serve on the juries of international competitions. His students are prizewinners of major international competitions and hold positions in renowned orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, the Bamberg Symphony and the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra.

Anton Sorokow performs on a 1741 violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, “Ex Carrodus,” from the collection of the Austrian National Bank. He is represented internationally by Parera Management.