Described by the Washington Post as "stylistically refined" "electrifying" and "brilliant," violinist PETER SIROTIN has performed extensively as a chamber musician, soloist, and concertmaster since his debut at age 14 performing Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Kharkiv Philharmonic in his native Ukraine. Recently, Mr. Sirotin appeared as a soloist with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, Williamsport Symphony, American Youth Philharmonic and Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. As part of the Sirotin-Chang Duo, he had given world premieres of Jeremy Gill’s Duo for Violin and Piano and Ching-Ju Shih’s Double Concerto for Violin and Piano with the National Taiwan Normal University Symphony at the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.
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For 27 years Mr. Sirotin performed with the Mendelssohn Piano Trio, which he founded with his wife, pianist Ya-Ting Chang. The group performed over six hundred concerts in the US, Europe, and Asia, was featured on NPR’s “Performance Today” and WETA’s “Front Row Washington,” as well as recorded fifteen CDs including the complete Haydn Piano Trios on Centaur Records.
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Mr. Sirotin has collaborated in performance with pianists Ann Schein, Igor Zhukov, Alexei Lubimov, violinists Alexander Kerr and Earl Carlyss, cellist Natalia Gutman, flutist Claudi Arimany, oboist Gerard Reuter, harpsichordist Arthur Haas, guitarist Jason Vieaux and members of the Juilliard, Jasper, Jupiter, Borodin, Daedalus, Parker, Avalon, Miro and Fry Street quartets.
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As concertmaster, Mr. Sirotin’s performances range from Arlo Guthrie Annual Thanksgiving Concert in Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Verizon Hall to performances of the Verdi Requiem, Bach’s St. John Passion and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Cathedral Choral Society at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. He is currently the Concertmaster of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra and Co-Director of Market Square Concerts in Harrisburg, PA, where he presented over a hundred performances featuring artists ranging from Midori and Emerson Quartet to Third Coast Percussion and Limmie Pulliam, as well as developed an educational outreach program “Soundscape” reaching thousands of K-12 age children in Central PA annually. In 2023, he received an Arts Award for distinguished service to the arts in the Capital Region.
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In addition to an active performing schedule, Mr. Sirotin has been teaching for nearly three decades. From 2002 until 2025, Mr. Sirotin has been artist-in-residence at Messiah University where he has co-founded and directed a summer chamber music and composition program for young musicians from 2006 until 2019. He was on faculty at Shenandoah Conservatory and Levine School of Music, given masterclasses in US and abroad, and has served as an adjudicator in competitions.
Together with long-time chamber music partner, Dr. Michael Stepniak, the 9th Master of Queen’s College at the University of Melbourne, Mr. Sirotin has co-authored a book on the future music training in higher education published by Routledge Press and College Music Society, and he has written a foreword to Chamber Music: An Extensive Guide for Listeners by Lucy Murray published by Rowman & Littlefield. Recently, Mr. Sirotin joined the faculty at Gettysburg College Sunderman Conservatory and Washington Musical Pathways Initiative.
