Irish-Italian violinist Violetta Suvini enjoys a varied concert diary across the UK and Europe.

Violetta is a 2025-2026 City Music Foundation Artist, where she will be supported in the release of her debut CD. She was the 2024-2025 recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Emily Anderson Prize, awarded annually to an outstanding violinist in the UK, and has appeared as a concert soloist in works by Saint Saens, Mendelssohn and Panufnik. She was awarded First Prize at the Premio Internazionale Il Suono Giovane 2024, the Rovere d’Oro Concorso Internazionale and the D’Addario Festival String Competition.

A devoted chamber musician, Violetta is Young Artist in Residence at the Merel Quartet’s Kammermusikfestival Zwischentöne 2025 and has appeared onstage with musicians such as Jakub Jakowicz (Zehetmair Quartet), Amy Norrington (Valo Quartet), Silvia Simonescu (Gringolts Quartet), David Waterman (Endellion Quartet), and the Merel Quartet. Violetta has performed chamber music internationally in venues such as Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, the Holywell Music Room, Associazione Kelis Firenze, Philharmonie Essen and NHK Hall, Tokyo. Her chamber music performances have been praised for their ‘exquisite delivery’ (The Arts Desk), ‘powerful body of sound’ (The Strad) and ‘compelling playing’ (The Arts Desk). Violetta’s radio broadcasts include the UK premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s A Thousand Tongues for BBC Radio 3 and Ravel’s Sonate Posthume with Christoph Berner for Swiss Radio SRF.

Violetta has benefitted from solo masterclasses with Patricia Kopatchinskaja at Milton Court Concert Hall, Philippe Graffin at Schiermonnikoog Festival, and Ensemble Intercontemporain at the Stauffer Centre, and received close musical guidance from Stephanie Gonley and Lorraine McAslan. She has been coached in chamber music by Ralf Gothoni, the Gould Trio, Ilya Poletaev, and the Takacs Quartet, among others. 

As a Britten-Pears Young Artist for the 24-25 season, Violetta performed six world premieres at the Aldeburgh Festival 2025 and led the contemporary chamber ensemble through works by Matthews, Turnage and Goehr. Violetta’s engagement with contemporary music has included projects such as leading UBU Ensemble for BBC Radio 3’s Frank Zappa ‘Total Immersion’ broadcast, whose performance The Guardian called ‘the highlight of the day’. She enjoys collaboration with living composers, and to date has given a further 12 world premieres. Violetta is also a member of Komuna Collective, a group of musicians and artists dedicated to innovative programming, supported by Arts Council England, Oxford Cultural Programme and PRS Foundation. Komuna have performed in venues such as Electrowerkz, London, Classical:NEXT Berlin, and Hjorted Art and Music, Sweden.

Between 2022-2025, Violetta has been the recipient of awards from the Humphrey Richardson Taylor Trust, the Kathleen Trust, the Finzi Trust, the Grant Fund for Musical Instruments, and the Vaughan Williams Foundation. She is grateful for the additional support of the Harrison Frank Family Foundation. 

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 studied with Stephanie Gonley and held the Yfrah Neaman Memorial Scholarship.

Prior to this, Violetta read 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 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.

To get in touch please contact violetta.suvini1@gmail.com