
Solistin / Solist
Alexandra Tirsu
- Violine
Biografie
Violinist Alexandra Tirsu is gaining recognition as one of the leading violinists
of her generation. A laureate and audience-award winner of the
prestigious ARD Competition 2021, as well as the Seoul International
Music Competition 2018 and Osaka International Competition 2014, her
performances have garnered critical acclaim around the world in
publications such as Classical Music Magazine and the Süddeutsche
Zeitung. Recent highlights include debut performances in Munich with the
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Herkulessaal and the Munich
Chamber Orchestra at the Prinzregententheater. Alexandra has performed
in venues such as the Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie,
Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Bucharest Athaneum and Beijing
Concert Hall, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center and the Seoul Arts Center,
at festivals such as the Crans Montana Classics and Sion Music Festival,
among others.
She has collaborated with artists such as Gidon Kremer, Michael
Guttman, Jing Zhao, Dmitri Jurowsky, Ivry Gitlis, Uto Ughi, Semyon
Bychkov, Vladimir Landsmann and Svetlana Makarova. An advocate of
bringing violin music to wider audiences, she regularly collaborates
with the celebrated music-comedy duo Igudesman & Joo. Alexandra
completed her undergraduate in Vienna under the tutelage of Pavel
Vernikov. She is currently pursuing her graduate studies in Sion under
the tutelage of Janine Jansen. She performs on a Francesco Gofriller
violin (“Ex Willy Boskovsky”), kindly on loan from Goh Family
Foundation.