Peter CHORKOV was born in Berlin and has been passionate about music since a very young age.

Following early musical education and initial recorder lessons, he continues lessons with Markus Friemel at Studio für Alte Musik und musikalische Bildung a 415 in Berlin. From 2009 he also attends the Musikgymnasium Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach Berlin, which combines a general school education with intensive musical training by teachers from Berlin’s music universities. There, he is guided for many years by renowned recorder virtuoso Martin Ripper, and receives piano lessons too. Choir lessons as well as music theory subjects complement the musical education. In addition, he takes private clarinet lessons with Prof. Norbert Möller for two years. During upper school, he is a scholarship holder of the Meyendorf Endowment of the Friends of the Musikymnasium C.-P.-E.-Bach, as well as the Gerda-und-Luigi-Pradé Endowment.

Despite his final certificate with distinctions (highest merits), he decides to continue his artistic path after school. In 2018, he begins studying Recorder at Karlsruhe University of Music with Prof. Karel van Steenhoven and Ulrike Mauerhofer. He also passionately follows the subjects Harpsichord and Basso continuo (with Kristian Nyquist) as well as Pedagogy, all of which he completes with flying colours. Then, he spends his fourth bachelor year at Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in the class of Prof. Frédéric de Roos and Nathalie Houtman as part of the ERASMUS+ exchange programme. Since October 2022, he is pursuing a Master’s degree in Recorder Performance at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Carsten Eckert. There he also commits to learning Baroque bassoon and Dulcian.

The young musician participates with great success in the Germany-wide competition Jugend musiziert between 2009 and 2018. There, he wins several first prizes, competing at the national level in 2015. In the same year, he receives the special prize for the interpretation of a contemporary work at the Dussmann Competition. He then goes on to win 3rd prize at the Nordhorn Recorder Festival Solo Competition 2020 and 2nd prize at the International Tel Aviv Recorder Festival Solo Competition 2022. He receives valuable input at master classes and workshops with Maurice Steger, Jeremias Schwarzer, Susanne Fröhlich, Ilya Korol, Chris Orton, Nik Tarasov, Peter Thalheimer, Pierre Hamon, Pedro Memelsdorff, and Lorenzo Cavasanti, among others. He regularly attends international festivals such as the Open Recorder Days Amsterdam as well as other renowned recorder events such as the ERTA Congress or the Festtage Bad Kissingen. As member of the European Recorder Teachers Association (“ERTA Deutschland e.V.”) he is also involved in the field of pedagogy.

From an early age, he pursues a wide variety of artistic projects in addition to his education. Of the numerous performances during his school and university years, some are worth highlighting. In the summer of 2012, he collaborates with the Lautten Compagney on the project Chirping of the Nightingale in Liebenberg (Brandenburg). He also plays a charity concert at the Berlin Philharmonie together with his musical school class. In September 2017, he participates in the premiere of Larisa Vrhunc’s Vertical with the Kairos Quartet at the St. Matthew’s Church near the Berlin Philharmonie. He takes on another premiere in 2021 with Fischerlied der Nacht for the master recital of composer Minzuo Lù at Karlsruhe University of Music. In 2020, he co-creates an improvisation with live electronics in the context of the university’s Creative Music Lab. With the Baroque Orchestra of the Conservatoire Royale de Bruxelles, he performs the programmes L’Orféo and La Comtesse d’Escarbagnas in 2021 and 2022. In October 2022, he plays his first concert with the recently joined ensemble La Camerata Chiara at the festival Les Polyfolies de la Flute à bec et son Univers in Nantes – with more projects to follow.

In addition to his activities as a recorder player, he is an honorary parish choir member, composes and arranges enthusiastically.