Alexandra Conunova (Violin soloist)
Alexandra Conunova attracted public and critical acclaim when she won First
Prize at the Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hanover in the autumn 2012.
She was praised by the jury for her vivid tone and her highly virtuoso dramatic
art and Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung wrote that she "shows with what radiance
of tone she is able to endow her music-making. Her interpretations of Bach’s
baroque dances are sometimes austere and yet wonderfully cantabile, at other
times truly dance-like or – as in the Bourrée – with a high degree of
virtuosity".
Alexandra’s current season include concerts at the Collonge-Bellerive
Festival, Festival International de Colmar, Rencontres Muiscales d'Evian,
Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Schloss Elmau and others. She will perform with
Camerata Bern, the China Philharmonic orchestra, the George Enescu Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Mariinski Orchestra, the National Philharmonic of Russia, the
Rundfunk Philharmonic Orchestra and the Moscow Soloists.
Alexandra has won major prizes at competitions such as the XV International
Tchaikovsky Competition, the 2015 Singapore International Violin Competition,
the 2011 George Enescu International Violin Competition as well as at Tibor
Varga (2010), Ion Voicu (2009)and Henri Marteau (2008). Alexandra was awarded
the Julius Bär Prize for the most accomplished artist of the Verbier Festival
Academy 2013. In 2015 Alexandra received the honorific title "Master of Arts" of
the Republic of Moldova. Alexandra got awarded the Borletti-Buitoni Trust
Fellowship 2016
She has established herself as a soloist of a high level. She has performed
with orchestras such as the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Berne, China
Philharmonic Orchestra, Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra, George Enescu
Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian State Opera, Hermitage Orchestra
St-Petersburg, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Soloists, Musikkollegium
Winterthur, National Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Radio Philharmonic, Nuremberg
Symphony Orchestra, Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, Saarbrücken Symphony Orchestra,
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Wuhan Symphony
Orchestra. She has collaborated with conductors including Christian Badea, Yury
Bashmet, Teodor Currentzis, Misha Damev, Valery Gergiev, Hannu Lintu, Hubert
Soudant, Andrew Matze, Vladimir Spivakov and Gabor Takacs-Nagy.
Alexandra is also a devoted chamber musician. She regularly collaborates with
artists such as Boris Brovtsyn, Gérard Caussé, Renaud Capuçon, Finghin Collins,
Blythe Teh Engstroem, Lera Auerbach, David Kadouch, Katia and Marielle Labèque,
Yura Lee, Michail Lifits, Alexander Melnikov, Paul Meyer, Edgar Moreau, Gordan
Nikolic, Andreas Ottensamer, Anne Queffélec, Julien Quentin, Alexei Stadler,
Kirill Troussov, Istvan Vardai, Pretty Yende and others.
Alexandra was born in 1988 in the Republic of Moldova and took up the violin
at the age of six. She studied with Professor Petru Munteanu at the University
of Music in Rostock, with Professor Krzysztof Wegrzyn at the University of Music
in Hannover and with Professor Renaud Capuçon at the Haute Ecole de Musique de
Lausanne. She has received taken additional classes with Ivry Gitlis , Igor
Oistrakh, Igor Ozim and others. She currently plays the Santo-Seraphin Violin,
dated 1735, Venezia, kindly loaned by the "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben".
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