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ALEX TOSKOV, winner of The Glenn Gould School Chamber Music Competition 2011, is a recipient of
various scholarships such as Norwegian Government scholarship, The Royal Conservatory full tuition
scholarship, and Serbian Fund for highly gifted students. In early 2015, Alex established The Odin Quartet, which has performed at Music Toronto, Music Niagara and Luminato festivals. The Quartet is maintaining a busy career premiering new music, as well as in recording studios.

In September 2012, after a successful audition, Alex became a member of Sinfonia Toronto. He plays in
the first violin section and had an opportunity to lead the orchestra on a few occasions including a gala
concert in Roy Thomson Hall in June 2016. Alex toured South America in 2018 and China in 2019 with
Sinfonia Toronto.

Recently, Mr. Toskov has appeared as the concertmaster of Toronto Mozart Players, Toronto Artist Symphony, Toronto Philharmonic, Toronto Operetta Theatre, Scarborough Philharmonic, Casa Loma Symphony, principal of Toronto Concert Orchestra, and has recorded various soundtracks for CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries. He also performed with Trans-Siberian Orchestra (Air Canada Centre), Diana Krall (Massey Hall), Josh Groban (Sony Centre), Il Divo (Queen Elisabeth Theatre), Evanescence (Budweiser Stage), and Owen Pallett (Massey Hall). Alex participated at St. Gallen Festival in Austria 2004, Stavanger Chamber Music Festival in Norway 2009, and Colours of Music Festival 2012 & 2013. Mr. Toskov performed as a soloist with Serbian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was a concertmaster of Bayreuth Festival Orchestra in 2006, German-Scandinavian Youth Philharmonic 2009 and was a member of Santiago de Chile Philharmonic Orchestra in 2007/2008. During his studies in Norway 2008-2010, Alex was regularly playing with Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra.
Musical theatre performances include Broadway musical “Kinky Boots” at The Royal Alexandra Theatre, “Fiddler on the Roof” at Stage West, “Sousatzka” at Elgin Theatre Toronto, “The Man with the Golden Heart” at Toronto Fringe.
In October 2010 he was invited to perform as a soloist on a gala concert hosted by cellist YoYo Ma in prestigious Koerner Hall in Toronto, Canada.

Alex was one of the adjudicators at Unionville Music competition in December 2022.

Alex took violin lessons with some of the greatest violin pedagogues and soloists such as Pierre Amoyal
(Lausanne), Ruben Aharonian (Borodin Quartet Moscow), Isaac Shuldman (Oslo), Michael
Frischenschlager (Vienna), Joel Smirnoff (New York), James Boyd (London). Mr. Toskov graduated violin
at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia. In 2003/04 he was a student at the University of Music in
Vienna, Austria with Professor Ernst Kovacic. In June 2010 he received a title Master of Music
Performance at Agder University in Norway. Alex received his Artist Diploma in June 2013 from The
Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory in Toronto, where he studied with Atis Bankas on violin
and Steven Dann, on viola.

Mr. Toskov speaks English, Spanish, Russian, German, Norwegian and Serbian.