Ariel Pawlik-Zwiebel, violin, Co-Winner Khuner Young Artist Concerto Competition 2024-25
May 2025 Concert Program Biography:
Violinist Ariel Pawlik-Zwiebel,17, is a senior at Campolindo High School in Moraga and studies violin with Eugene Chukhlov.
Ariel performs regularly as a soloist and recitalist, and recently played public concerts with his father, pianist Markus Pawlik, in Phoenix, San Rafael, Pleasanton, and Walnut Creek. This past August, they performed in a co-production of the San Francisco International Piano Festival with Noontime Concerts at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco and father and son look forward to touring Europe this upcoming summer. Ariel has also performed solo works recently with the Contra Costa Performing Arts Society, the Junior Bach Festival and at the Peninsula Holocaust Memorial Commemoration and will be performing as a soloist with the Livermore-Amador Symphony in February 2025.
As a chamber musician, Ariel plays with the Young Chamber Musicians program in Kohl Mansion and the Young Persons Symphony Orchestra (YPSO) Chamber program. He has attended the Bowdoin International Music Festival twice and participated in the chamber music at the Virtuoso Program of the San Domenico School.
Ariel toured Japan as concertmaster of the YPSO this past summer, and was selected to be concertmaster of the Festival Orchestra at the Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival (BAYOF) in January 2024. He has also performed several times in the professional California Chamber Orchestra together with the San Francisco Choral Society and is a former member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Ariel has won top prizes in numerous competitions including, among others, the Berkeley Etude Club Competition, Pacific Musical Society Competition, the US Open Competition, the Diablo Valley College-Holy Names University (DVC-HNU) Strings Competition and the Silicon Valley Philharmonic Music Competition and he was a laureate of the International Grumiaux Competition in Belgium.
As the co-chair of the Contra Costa Performing Arts Society student chapter, Ariel ran a student concert series from 2022-2024. He also participates in a FIRST robotics team.
