Alda Dizdari - Violinist
Alda Dizdari is an outstanding musician of immense diversity. Her triumphant debut at the Wigmore Hall and Southbank’s Purcell Room have already lead to important appearances on BBC Radio 3, solo performances in London, Poland, Albania and the release of a highly acclaimed live CD recorded at the Wigmore Hall.
Selected by the Gramophone as “One to Watch” musician in the May issue she launched in July 2011 a Solo Violin Tour in the UK titled “In the Footsteps of BACH” and released a studio CD with that programme.
In 2006 she received her first nomination for “The Best Classical Musician of the Year 2006” in her native Albania. Internationally she rose to fame in 2008 after performing Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Albanian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra when they made their UK Debut at the Canterbury Festival in the presence of the Albanian Deputy Prime Minister. She continued that success with solo performances and recitals in St James Piccadilly, St. John’s Smith Square, St Martins in the Fields, as well as concerts in Germany, Switzerland, Greece, France, Holland.
In addition as a devoted chamber musician she has been Guest Leader of Allegri String Quartet performing in all the major music festivals in the country, Leader of the Ensemble de la Chapelle St Mark, Luxembourg as well as the founder of Chromatico Contemporary Ensemble and Competition. She has toured Europe with Ensemble Modern and Pierre Boulez.
Now based in the UK, Alda was born into a family of musicians and left her native Albania from an early age to pursue her career in music. She studied in Romania with distinguished soloists and received a Bachelor Degree from the University of Bucharest. She continued her Master Studies at the University of Illinois in USA and her Advanced Instrumental Studies in London, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno where she also held for two years the prestigious Leverhulme String Fellowship.
In 2008 she was appointed Musician in Residence of The Wapping Arts Trust with HRH Princess Michael of Kent as Patron. She has embarked on an extended tour of concerts and projects exploring the relationship between music and art called "Rhythmic Ties Concert Series". These projects are taking her all around England, Holland, France, Spain, US and Australia collaborating with major visual artists and musicians.
Alda is playing a G.B.Ceruti Violin, Cremona 1791, bought specially for her by a private sponsor and a Dominique Peccatte Bow on loan from the Stradivari Trust.
