Violetta Suvini

She was awarded First Prize at the Premio Internazionale Il Suono Giovane 2024, and has appeared as a concert soloist in works by Saint Saens, Mendelssohn and Panufnik. She is Young Artist in Residence at the Merel Quartet’s Kammermusikfestival Zwischentöne 2025 and was a Britten Pears Young Artist for the 24-25 season, performing 6 premieres at the Aldeburgh Festival 2025. Her radio broadcasts include the UK premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s A Thousand Tongues for BBC Radio 3 and Ravel’s Sonate Posthume for Swiss Radio.

Violetta has performed chamber music in venues such as Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, the Holywell Music Room, Associazione Kelis Firenze and Philharmonie Essen, and has appeared onstage with musicians such as Jakub Jakowicz (ZehetmairQuartet), Amy Norrington (Valo Quartet) and David Waterman (Endellion Quartet). Her chamber music performances have been praised for their ‘exquisite delivery’ (The Arts Desk), ‘powerful body of sound’ (The Strad) and ‘compellingplaying’ (The Arts Desk).

Violetta has benefitted from solo masterclasses with musicians such as Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Philippe Graffin, and been closely guided by Stephanie Gonley and Lorraine McAslan. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama after completing her studies in French and Italian literature at the University of Oxford, where she graduated with the Marjorie Countess of Warwick Prize, the Mrs Claude Beddington Prize and the Junior Paget Toynbee Prize. Between 2021-2025, she has been the recipient of awards from the Humphrey Richardson Taylor Trust, the Kathleen Trust, the Finzi Trust, the Vaughan Williams Foundation, and the Grant Fund for Musical Instruments.