Violinist Anna Badalian

1 (solo) performer

Indoor and outdoor

Violinist

1 hour

Not much space needed, small place is en

NL, EN

Anna Badalian is a professional violinist, graduated conservatory in Groningen (Bachelor) and then another master's degree in Zwolle. Plays classical music, additionally plays party music, well-known songs. Plays at weddings, living room concerts, reception, birthday party and others, also plays songs on demand and background music.

Anna Badalian began violin lessons at the age of four, and when she was six, she had her first public solo performance. Since then, Anna has had annual solo performances. In 1996, she performed with orchestra for the first time. In 1996, Anna received a scholarship from the International Masterclass at the Keshet Eilon Music Centre (Israel), under the direction of Shlomo Mintz. She participated in this master class and was taught by Mikhail Vayman and Arthur Zisserman. In 1998 Anna won a prize from the Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, which allowed her to participate in the third edition of the Beach of Hope International Music Festival and Competition in Dobrich-Albena, Bulgaria. Here she became a winner (laureate) and the same year she won the fifth Christmas festival in St. Petersburg. In 2000, Anna attended a master class in St. Petersburg with Zakhar Bron (teacher of Maxim Vengerov, among others), and performed at the final concert. In the same year she received a scholarship from the Northern Netherlands Conservatory, and thus she was able to participate in the Peter the Great Festival in Groningen. In 2001, Anna went to study violin at the North Netherlands Conservatory (now the Prince Claus Conservatory), where she graduated as a teaching musician in 2006. In the same year she went to study with
Tinta von Altenstadt at the Messiaen Academy. During her studies in the Netherlands, Anna received grants from various funds, such as the Makarov Fund (the Netherlands) and the Calouse Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal). During her studies in the Netherlands she took master classes with G. Arutunian (Paris), B. Van Oort (Amsterdam), I. Ozim (Salzburg), among others. In 2007 she was invited to participate in the Festival de Musique de Pontlevoy (France), where she was taught by A. Brussilovsky (Paris). And in 2008 Anna played at B. Kelemen's master class in Arnhem, where she was invited to participate in the Kaposvár Chamber Music Festival in Hungary, to which invitation she naturally accepted. In 2009 Anna graduated from the Messiaen Academy in Zwolle and obtained her master's degree. From 2010 to 2013 Anna took lessons with Gordan Nikolic (concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra and artistic lieder of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra). In 2012 Anna won the competition Wiener Krakauer in Austria ##### and in September 2013 Anna was a soloist with the Pazardzhik Simphony Orchestra in Bulgaria. There she played J. Brahms' violin concerto. Since 2013 Anna has been a violinist with the orchestra Stichting Ars Musica, since 2015 violinist with the Stichting Begeleidingsorkest and since 2017 violin teacher at Het VioolLab in Amersfoort. Since 2015 Anna forms a string quartet and also a duo with pianist Lineke Lever with whom she gives concerts throughout the Netherlands. Since 2019 Anna is violin teacher at music school in Amersfoort and music school in Urk. Since 2021 Anna is violin teacher at music school Pianoforte. In Anna's musical development especially the violin pedagogues representing the Russian violin school of D. Oistrakh, Y. Yankelevich and L. Kogan have played a major role.

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