Meet Nic

Violin | Soloist | Chamber Musician | Teacher

Nicolas Paul Orbovich enjoys a high reputation among  adventurous American violinists.  His highly acclaimed career spans a wide variety of musical styles and genres, while expanding into prolific artistic entrepreneurial endeavors.

As a performer, Nic has been honored widely.  He was a soloist in the world premiere of “Epitaph” by Jaroslaw Golembioski in 2024. In this performance, he was honored by being selected to perform on one of the storied “Violins of Hope” accompanied by the Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra in Chicago.  In 1987, he was awarded the Bronze Medal at Her Royal Majesty’s International Festival Competition in Aberdeen, Scotland (UK).  Orbovich was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition as a member of the Amherst String Quartet.  In 2001, he was featured as a soloist on the Grammy Award nominated release, “The Hot Springs Music Festival:  Louis Moreau Gottschalk” (Naxos).  That same year, Nic was a prominent figure in the Emmy Award winning documentary, “The Sound of Dreams.”  In 2008, Nic was concertmaster on a “Top Ten of the Year” selection of Gramophone Magazine, “Rudolf Haken; Concertos” (Naxos).  He has soloed with numerous orchestras around the country, having performed concertos and brilliante works by Wieniawski, Vieuxtemps, Sarasate, J.S. Bach, Beethoven, and Vivaldi

He enjoys a reputation as an outstanding recording artist in many genres.  Besides the aforementioned Grammy nominee and Gramophone magazine award winner, Nic appears in “The Hot Springs Music Festival; Creole Romantic Composers” (2001-Naxos), “Music of Jerome Moross” (2002-Naxos), “Music of Jerome Starer” (1997-Albany), and appears on an album of jazz violinist Diane Delin.

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