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

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. She is the recipient of awards from the Humphrey Richardson Taylor Trust, the Kathleen Trust, the Finzi Trust, and the Loan Fund for Musical Instruments.

A devoted 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 appeared 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. She has recently been selected as Young Artist in Residence at the 2025 Kammermusikfestival Zwischentöne Engelberg in Switzerland and is part of the Musethica Europe network. Her chamber music awards include first prize at the 2024 Piano Trio Society Intercollegiate Competition and third prize in the 2024 Renzo Giubergia International Chamber Music Competition.

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, Ilya Poletaev, and the Takacs Quartet, among others.

As a Britten-Pears Young Artist for the 24-25 season, Violetta recently performed six world premieres at the Aldeburgh Festival 2025 and led the contemporary chamber ensemble through works by Matthews, Turnage and Goehr, which The Arts Desk described as ‘compellingly played’: “young composers and players together absolutely dazzled in the big "New Music Now" concert over at the Britten Studio on Friday afternoon”. 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’. Her multiple broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 also include the UK premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s ‘A Thousand Tongues’ for the ‘Total Immersion’ programme in 2024.

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.

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.

For any enquiries please contact violetta.suvini1@gmail.com