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

Violetta Suvini is a 2025-2027 City Music Foundation Artist. She was the 2024-2025 recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Emily Anderson Prize, awarded annually to an outstanding violinist in the UK. She has upcoming debut recitals at St Martin in the Fields, the Barbican Hall, St Bartholomews, Cheltenham Festival, CAFE OTO and Leeds Lunchtime International, and has appeared as a concert soloist in works by Saint Saens, Mendelssohn and Panufnik. She was awarded First Prize in 2024 at the Premio Internazionale Il Suono Giovane and the Rovere d’Oro Concorso Internazionale.  

A devoted chamber musician, her performances have been praised for their ‘exquisite delivery’ (The Arts Desk), ‘powerful body of sound’ (The Strad) and ‘compelling playing’ (The Arts Desk). Violetta was one of the Young Artists in Residence at the Merel Quartet’s Kammermusikfestival Zwischentöne 2025 and has appeared on stage 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, NHK Hall Tokyo; for series such as Barnes Concert Society and The New Space, Oxford; and at festivals including the Venice Biennale, Bloomsbury, and Oxford Chamber. 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. She received third prize at the Renzo Giubergia International Chamber Music Competition 2024 with her piano trio, Trio Casella.

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. 

Violetta is also a member of Komuna Collective, a group of musicians and visual artists who primarily perform as a string quartet working with electronics and multimedia. They have been supported by Arts Council England, Oxford Cultural Programme, PRS Foundation, CRASSH Cambridge and Nordic Culture Fund. Komuna have performed in venues such as Electrowerkz, London, Classical:NEXT Berlin, Hjorted Art and Music in Sweden, and Cambridge Arts Festival, UK.
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.

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, the Vaughan Williams Foundation, and the Francis Routh Trust. She is grateful for the additional support of the Harrison Frank Family Foundation. 

Violetta graduated with 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. 

Feel free to get in touch at violetta.suvini1@gmail.com