Violinist, conductor, and chamber musician Ernst Kovacic is noted for his specialties in 20th century and contemporary music but also plays and leads works from other periods. He is also a chamber music player and an important educator as a longtime member of the faculty at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Kovacic has a substantial recording catalog dating back to the late '80s. In 2025, he was heard on an earlier recording of Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2 with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Kovacic was born in 1943 in Kapfenberg, in Austria's S...