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 solo performances every year. 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), directed by Shlomo Mintz. She participated in this master class and had lessons from Mikhail Vayman and Arthur Zisserman. In 1998 Anna won a prize from the Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, which enabled 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 Sint-Petersbrug. In 2000 Anna attended a master class in St Petersburg with Zakhar Bron (teacher of a.o. Maxim Vengerov), and performed at the final concert. In the same year she received a scholarship from the North Netherlands Conservatory, and was able to participate in the Peter the Great Festival in Groningen. In 2001 Anna began studying violin at the North Netherlands Conservatoire (now the Prince Claus Conservatoire), 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 (Netherlands) and the Calouse Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal). During her study in the Netherlands she followed master classes with a.o. G. Arutunian (Paris), B. Van Oort (Amsterdam), I. Ozim (Salzburg). 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 during the masterclass of B. Kelemen in Arnhem, where she got the invitation to participate at the Kaposvár Chamber Music Festival in Hungary, to which invitation she naturally accepted. In 2009 Anna graduated from the Messiaen Academy in Zwolle and got her master degree. From 2010 to 2013 Anna took lessons from Gordan Nikolic (concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra and artistic director 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 the violin concerto by J. Brahms. Since 2013 Anna is a violinist with the Ars Musica Orchestra, since 2015 violinist with the Accompaniment Orchestra Foundation 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 a violin teacher at music school in Amersfoort and music school in Urk. 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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