{{Short description|Romanian-American violinist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2012}} Robert Davidovici|thumb '''Robert Davidovici''' (born 1946) is a Romanian-American violinist.<ref name="NYT040586">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE0D81030F936A35757C0A960948260|title=MUSIC: VIOLIN, DAVIDOVICI|last=Page|first=Tim|date=April 5, 1986|work=The New York Times}}</ref> He took First Prize honors in the Naumburg Competition in 1972.<ref name="Naumberg Competition">{{cite web|title=The Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, Inc. Previous Winners Competition Winners 1972|url=http://www.naumburg.org/previous-winners.php|website=The Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, Inc|access-date=4 June 2015|archive-date=December 11, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111211185444/http://www.naumburg.org/previous-winners.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1983 Davidovici tied, with Maryvonne Le Dizès, for first place in the Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition.<ref name="NYT040586" /><ref name="BG092783">{{cite news|title=SMIRNOFF RUNNER-UP IN VIOLIN CONTEST|last=Dyer|first=Richard|date=September 27, 1983|work=Boston Globe}}</ref> The prize was $77,000 and Davidovici received half.<ref name="BG092783" />
Robert Davidovici was born in the Transylvania region of Romania.<ref name="UOM">{{cite web|url=http://www.test.music.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/davidovici.html|title=Robert Davidovici|publisher=University of Melbourne Faculty of the VCA and Music|access-date=April 15, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410070558/http://www.test.music.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/davidovici.html|archive-date=April 10, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> He studied the violin with Robert Pickler in Sydney,<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Borer |first=Philippe |author-link=Philippe Borer |title=Aspects of European Influences on Violin Playing & Teaching in Australia |degree=M. Music |publisher=Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music |date=December 1988 |page=130 |url=https://eprints.utas.edu.au/18865/ |quote=Pikler was perhaps the first outstanding contributor to Australian violin playing in the wider sense and the major exponent of the Hungarian school in this country. Among his pupils, one could mention: Robert Davidovici...}}</ref> with David Oistrakh<ref name="FWST101407">{{cite news|title=Soviet's Works Upstage Brahms and Beethoven|last=Erikson|first=Matthew|date=October 14, 2007|work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram}}</ref> and at the Juilliard School in New York City.<ref name="UOM" /> In 1967, he was a prize winner in the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards in Australia.
In 1983, Davidovici was the artist-in-residence at North Texas State University in Denton, Texas.<ref name="HC092087">{{cite news|title=Sessions: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 Christian Badea, conductor New World Records|last=Ward|first=Charles|date=September 20, 1987|work=Houston Chronicle}}</ref>
In 1997, while he was a concertmaster in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Davidovici joined the faculty of Florida International University in Miami, Florida.<ref name="MH111597">{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4D8E0C07AD8DC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=SOLID DEBUT FOR DAVIDOVICI AT FIU'S WERTHEIM CENTER|last=Roos|first=James|date=November 15, 1997|access-date=April 18, 2011}}</ref>
Davidovici is the founding artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth.<ref name="FWST010196">{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ST&s_site=dfw&p_multi=ST&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF9048EEEF49E9&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Chamber Music Society makes the most of Mozart|date=January 2, 1996|work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram}}</ref>
In February 2007, Davidovici was soloist at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in the American premiere of the Kletzki Violin Concerto (1928) with the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein, following which the ''New York Times'' commented on the "excellent " performance.<ref name="schweitzer-vivien2007">{{cite news |last=Schweitzer|first=Vivien|title=American Symphony Orchestra - Music - Review: Scratch a Conductor, Find a Composer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/arts/music/12cond.html?_r=0|access-date=4 June 2015|newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 12, 2007 }}</ref>
In October 2013, Mr. Davidovici performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogan Hall,<ref name="RPO100813">{{cite news|url=http://www.cadoganhall.com/event/royal-philharmonic-orchestra-131008//|title=Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Part of Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 2013/14 Resident Season|date=October 8, 2013|work=Royal Philharmonic Orchestra}}</ref> under Grzegorz Nowak, after which they recorded their 2nd CD, containing the Beethoven and Mendelssohn Violin Concerti.
In February 2015, Davidovici recorded the Brahms and Tschaikovsky Violin Concerti with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, under Nowak, as their 3rd CD collaboration. A few days later, they performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in Cadogan Hall London concert series.<ref name="RPO021315">{{cite news|url=http://www.cadoganhall.com/event/royal-philharmonic-orchestra-150213/|title=Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Part of Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 2014/15 Resident Season|date=February 13, 2015|work=Royal Philharmonic Orchestra}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frb8iAkID-8/ Interview with Dr. Elena Ursu on Rompost TV] *[https://www.youtube.com/embed/sHAekA6clo4/ Interview with Cecilia Burcescu on Rompost TV] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=24&v=_8l7rIlgYU0/ Violin Master Class: Robert Davidovici on Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20210210114016/https://www.robertdavidovici.com/ Robert Davidovici site - 2021 archive]
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