Emanuel Borok

Emanuel Borok has been the concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra since 1985. Before coming to Dallas, Borok served for 11 season as associate concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and concertmaster of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Born and trained in the Soviet Union, he received his early musical instruction at the Darzinya Music School in Riga, Latvia, and the Gnessin School of Music in Moscow. He has made many solo appearances around the world and throughout the United States, including Carnegie Hall. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician with Yehudi Menuhin, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell, Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell and Paul Neubauer, among others. Borok's most recent recording, "A Road Less Traveled," includes seldom-performed concertos by Joseph Haydn, and he recently published a book of original cadenzas for all five Mozart Violin Concertos with Theodore Presser Co. Borok currently serves on the faculty of the University of North Texas.