Belgian violinist of Russian-Ukrainian heritage, Marc Bouchkov’s orchestral appearances include concerts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mariss Jansons, the Munich Philharmonic and Philippe Jordan, HR-Sinfonieorchester and Christoph Eschenbach, Filarmonica della Scala and Lorenzo Viotti and the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev. He has also appeared with the NDR-Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. In 2021 he performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, followed by an invitation to be artist-in-residence of the orchestra. His international awards include the first prize at the Montreal International Violin Competition and the silver medal of the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition, the London Music Masters Award and the music prize of the Kulturstiftung Dortmund. Mr. Bouchkov currently serves as professor on the faculty of the Conservatoire Royale de Liège and as professor in the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen, Germany.