VIOLETTA SUVINI
VIOLINIST
Violetta Suvini 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 for highest marks in her degree.
Violetta is a Britten-Pears Young Artist for the 24-25 season, leading the ensemble on the Composition and Performance Course. 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.
Violetta has performed chamber music in venues such as Wigmore Hall, St Martin in the Fields, St John’s Smith Square, City Music Foundation, Snape Maltings, and the Holywell Music Room, and has been lucky to appear onstage with musicians such as David Waterman, Amy Norrington, Matthew Jones, Carole Presland and Akiko Ono. Appearances at festivals include Schiermonnikoog Festival Masterclasses 2025; Musethica Europe 2025-2026; Aldeburgh Festival 2025; Bloomsbury Festival 2024; Oxford Chamber Music Festival 2021.
At home in both classical and contemporary repertoire, Violetta led 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 participated in solo masterclasses with musicians such as Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Philippe Graffin, Boris Garlitsky and Ensemble Intercontemporain, and received chamber music coaching from Ralf Gothoni, the Gould Trio, and the Takacs Quartet, among others.
Violetta's piano trio, Trio Casella, won first prize at the 2024 Piano Trio Society Intercollegiate Competition, the 2023 Ivan Sutton Chamber Music Competition, the 2023 St James’s Chamber Music Competition in London, and third prize in the 2024 Renzo Giubergia International Chamber Music Competition. They have broadcast multiple times on BBC Radio 3, including to give the UK premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s ‘A Thousand Tongues’ in 2024.
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.