Draft:Alexandra Tirsu

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Alexandra Tirsu is a Moldovan classical violin soloist and chamber musician.

Education & Achievements

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3rd prize and audience-award winner of the prestigious 2021 ARD Competition[1], the young Moldovan violinist Alexandra Tirsu, who completed her undergraduate studies with Pavel Vernikov[2] in Vienna and Janine Jansen[3] in Sion, is fast gaining recognition as one of the leading violinists of her generation.

A laureate of the 2018 Seoul International Music Competition[4] and 2014 Osaka International Competition[5], her performances have garnered critical acclaim in publications such as The Strad, Classical Music Magazine, and Süddeutsche Zeitung, among many others.

Musical collaborations

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Her 2022/23 season included collaborations with Sol Gabetta, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Kirill Troussov, Ioana Cristina Goicea, and Richard Galliano, as well as orchestral engagements with the London Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Kiev Virtuosi Orchestra, Pilsen Philharmonic, Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic (with immediate re-invitation), the Orquesta Fimarmónica Marchigiana, Incheon Philharmonic and Orquesta Vigo 430.  Additionally, she has also performed at the Solsberg Festival, the Crans Montana Classics Festival and Sion Music Festival.

The 2023/24 seasons brings Alexandra to Seoul, Korea, where she makes her debut with the celebrated Korean Chamber Orchestra[6], the Residence Hall as well her debut in the Isar Philharmonie (Munich) with the Bavarian Youth Orchestra playing Britten Violin Concerto, and Romanian Athenaeum (Bucharest), alongside some of the other halls she has performed in the past seasons, including the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Herkules Saal and Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Seoul Arts Center, the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center and the Beijing Concert Hall.

She has performed under the baton of Semyon Bychkov, Ronald Zollman, Gabriel Bebeselea, Dmitri Jurowsky, among others, and have collaborated with musicians such as Ivry Gitlis, Michael Guttman , Daishin Kashimoto, Alexander Chaushian, Friedrich Thiele, Razvan Popovici, Uto Ughi, Diemut Poppen, Boris Brovtsyn, Vladmir Landsmann, Svetlana Makarova, Levon Chilingirian and Kyril Zlontnikov.  An advocate of bringing violin music to wider audiences, she regularly collaborates with the celebrated music-comedy duo Igudesman & Joo.

Instrument

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Alexandra plays the 1717 “Reifenberg” Stradivari, on generous loan through The Stradivari Society[7]. She has been a Thomastik-Infeld artist since 2021.

References

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  1. ^ "70th ARD Music Competition 2021". Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  2. ^ "Alexandra Tirsu - EN". Sion Violon musique (in French). 2022-06-07. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  3. ^ 2021-06-04T09:00:00+01:00. "New documentary profiles Janine Jansen and her relationship with 12 Stradivari violins". The Strad. Retrieved 2024-04-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ 2018-03-22T14:29:00+00:00. "Seoul International Music Competition violin finalists announced". The Strad. Retrieved 2024-04-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "第15回 特別賞 結果 | 大阪国際音楽コンクール". www.osakaimc.com (in Japanese). 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  6. ^ kco.or.kr https://kco.or.kr/. Retrieved 2024-04-23. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ "Recipients | Stradivari Society". Retrieved 2024-04-02.