Orchestral & Chamber Musician
Violist Ivan Ugorich is an avid orchestral and chamber musician. Since 2016 he has been a regular substitute with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, playing multiple concerts each season, and he also performs with the Tucson Pops Orchestra and Arizona Opera. He won the position of principal violist with Symphony Orchestra Augusta, where he served from 2014–2016, and has performed with professional orchestras including the Sarasota Orchestra, the Florida Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony, Orlando Philharmonic, Pensacola Symphony, and Lexington Philharmonic, under conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Leonard Slatkin, David Robertson, Franz Welser-Möst, and Lawrence Foster. He also works with The University of Arizona.
As an active chamber musician, Ivan won the Macauley Chamber Music Competition with his quartet in 2012 and was a 2016 finalist in the International Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition with the Cerulean Trio. He has also performed with his two groups on the radio with WUOL 90.5 and WFSQ 91.5 respectively. As a founder of the Cerulean Trio, with clarinetist Jackie Glazier and pianist Galen Dean Peiskee Jr, Ivan travels and performs at venues throughout the country. The trio won Florida State University’s Carnegie Hall competition, and in May 2017 appeared at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall as part of the program “Home and Abroad.” Additionally, he toured with the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, where he played in the festival orchestra and in chamber music, and performed with the Innsbrook Institute Summer Music Festival and Indiana University Summer Music Festival. Ivan also has experience as a soloist, winning three solo competitions. Performance opportunities have taken him to Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Denmark, Italy, and China. Engagements have included performances with artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Lang Lang, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Midori, Rachel Barton Pine, Guy Braunstein, Gil Shaham, Renée Fleming, Boston Pops, Pink Martini, and Time for Three.
Ivan earned his B.M. in viola performance from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and his M.A. in arts administration from Florida State University, where he was a graduate assistant in viola. His teachers have included Alan de Veritch and Stephen Wyrczynski.
