VIOLETTA SUVINI
VIOLINIST
Violetta is the 2024 recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Emily Anderson Prize, awarded annually to an outstanding violinist in the UK.
She was awarded First Prize at the Premio Internazionale Il Suono Giovane 2024 with pianist Henry Lewis, and has won First Prize at competitions such as the Rovere d’Oro Concorso Internazionale and the D’Addario Festival String Competition.
A passionate chamber musician, Violetta has performed chamber music in venues such as Wigmore Hall, St Martin in the Fields, St John’s Smith Square, Holywell Music Room, and the Sheldonian Theatre, and has been lucky to appear onstage with musicians such as David Waterman (Endellion Quartet), Amy Norrington (Valo Quartet), Matthew Jones, Carole Presland and Akiko Ono. Performances at major festivals include Aldeburgh Festival, Schiermonnikoog Festival, Classical:NEXT, Bloomsbury Festival, the BBC Proms, Maiastra, and Oxford Chamber Music Festival.
Violetta’s engagement with contemporary music has included projects such as leading contemporary music ensemble ‘UBU’ for BBC Radio 3’s Frank Zappa ‘Total Immersion’ broadcast, whose performance The Guardian called ‘the highlight of the day’. Violetta has given the first performances of chamber and solo works by composers Luka Venter, Hy-Khang Dang, Amy Crankshaw, and Imogen Davey, including the UK premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s ‘A Thousand Tongues’ for piano trio and electronics. As a Britten-Pears Young Artist for the 24-25 season, she will perform 6 world premieres at the Aldeburgh Festival 2025.
Violetta graduated from a Masters in Performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2023 with Distinction and a Concert Recital Diploma for exceptional final recital. She held the Yfrah Neaman Memorial Scholarship and studied with Stephanie Gonley. Her postgraduate studies were supported by the Kathleen Trust, the Humphrey Richardson Taylor Trust, and the Harrison Frank Family Foundation, from whom she is loaned an Antoniazzi violin for a period of 5 years.
Prior to this, Violetta studied French and Italian literature at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, graduating in 2021 with First Class Honours and the Marjorie Countess of Warwick Prize, the Mrs Claude Beddington Prize and the Junior Paget Toynbee Prize. Violetta’s literary studies have allowed her to develop a wide cultural and literary context within which to situate her musical activities, and these two backgrounds of hers continue to nourish each other. She also enjoys going to see and reading about all forms of visual art.
She is excited by the interdisciplinary reach of Komuna Collective, and the space it forges for unbridled musical, textual, and artistic exploration.