Emanuel Borok, Concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra since 1985, has had a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral leader. Before coming to Dallas, Mr. Borok served for 11 seasons as Associate Concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Concertmaster of the Boston Pops Orchestra.

Born and trained in the Soviet Union, Mr. Borok received his early musical instruction at the re-known Darzinya Music School in Riga, Latvia, and the Gnessin School of Music in Moscow. In 1964 he  became prizewinner of the most important National Violin  Competition in the former Soviet Union. In 1971, he won the  position of Co-Concertmaster in the Moscow Philharmonic. 

Since emigrating to the West in 1973 Emanuel Borok has made many  solo appearances in Israel, Canada, France, Italy, Norway,  Venezuela, Mexico, Switzerland, Holland and throughout the United  States, including Carnegie Hall. His solo appearances have  included the Bach Double Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin, Mozart's  Sinfonia Concertante with Pinchas Zukerman and Brahms’s Double  Concerto with Janos Starker, Concerto appearance at the famed  Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona Italy; His chamber music partners  include such distinguished artists as Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell,  and Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman and Christopher Hogwood, Joshua  Bell, Ralph Kirshbaum, Cho-Liang Lin and Paul Neubauer. Emanuel  Borok was also featured in the Distinguished Artists Recital Series  at the 92nd Street Y in New York.

In 1999 a recording by the Dallas-based new music ensemble Voices  of Change “ Voces Americanas” in which he took an important  part was nominated for the Grammy Award, Mr. Borok has recorded  the Shostakovich Violin Sonata with Tatiana Yanpolsky (a recording  that received a four-star rating from the Penguin Cassette Guide),  the solo part of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with musicians from the  Boston Symphony (named “Best of the Month” by Stereo Review  Magazine), and Beethoven’s Archduke Trio with pianist Claude Frank  and cellist Leslie Parnas (a recording honored by “Ovation”  magazine). 

Mr. Borok’s most recent recording entitled “A Road Less Traveled” released to critical acclaim on the  Eroica label includes seldom performed concertos by Joseph Haydn.  Mr. Borok has published a book of original cadenzas for all five  Mozart Violin Concertos with Theodore Presser Co. 

In addition to his highly active performing life, Borok has  established himself as an internationally recognized teacher having  taught at the Tanglewood Music Center; the Academia Musicale  Chigiana in Siena, Italy; and the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad,  Switzerland; Royal Conservatory and Academy of Music in London,  Conservatoire de Paris, Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Moscow and the  Academy of Music in Prague. In the summer of 2005 he was invited to  teach at the famous Verbier Festival in Switzerland. 

 Emanuel Borok currently serves on the faculty of the University of North Texas.