Biography
International prize winner Larissa Cidlinsky is building a reputation as an outstanding and versatile young string soloist.
Recently she won the scholarship of the German Music Competition, as well as the EMF Pirastro Young Artist Award and took part in the Festival Chamber Music Connects the World at Kronberg Academy, where she performed with Gidon Kremer, Tabea Zimmermann, Jörg Widmann and Christian Tetzlaff. She was awarded a violin made by Nicolas Lupot, Paris 1810 from the German foundation "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben". In 2019 she won the 2nd prize in the Jeunesse Violin Competition Dinu Lipatti in Bucharest and is a laureate at the Ysaÿe International Violin Competition in Liège, the Leonid Kogan Competition in Brussels and the International Violin Competition Andreas Postacchini in Fermo, where she was also awarded two special prizes for the best interpretation of Bach and as best german participant. For her studies at “The Juilliard School” she won the prestigious DAAD-scholarship in 2015.
Recently she won the scholarship of the German Music Competition, as well as the EMF Pirastro Young Artist Award and took part in the Festival Chamber Music Connects the World at Kronberg Academy, where she performed with Gidon Kremer, Tabea Zimmermann, Jörg Widmann and Christian Tetzlaff. She was awarded a violin made by Nicolas Lupot, Paris 1810 from the German foundation "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben". In 2019 she won the 2nd prize in the Jeunesse Violin Competition Dinu Lipatti in Bucharest and is a laureate at the Ysaÿe International Violin Competition in Liège, the Leonid Kogan Competition in Brussels and the International Violin Competition Andreas Postacchini in Fermo, where she was also awarded two special prizes for the best interpretation of Bach and as best german participant. For her studies at “The Juilliard School” she won the prestigious DAAD-scholarship in 2015.
As a soloist, Larissa Cidlinsky has performed with orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestra of Sibiu, the Chiemgau-Orchestra, the chamber orchestra of Regensburg and Wasserburg, the Singrün Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bad Reichenhall and the Symphonic Orchestra of Prague.
In addition to her activities as a soloist, Cidlinsky is also an enthusiastic chamber musician. Together with the cellist Anton Spronk, she is founder and artistic director of the festival "Eggenfelden klassisch". In 2016 she won a scholarship from Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz, where she had the opportunity to play with artists such as Fazil Say, Lauma & Baiba Skride, Martin Beaver, Wen Xiao Zheng and the Calidore String Quartet. The young violinist has been a guest at international festivals such as the Krzyzowa Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Kronberg Academy, the Nordic Chamber Music Festival, Zeeland Klassiek (Holland) and the Lockenhaus Festival. She has received important musical impulses from Vadim Gluzman, Gerhard Schulz, Pavel Vernikov, Kolja Blacher, Mihaela Martin, Reinhard Goebel, Thomas Brandis and Ingolf Turban. |
Larissa Cidlinsky was was invited as guest concertmaster to the Philharmonic Orchestra Gera Altenburg and the "Kammerphilharmonie Landshut" and was concertmaster of the „Hochschulorchester Weimar“, the Salzburg Youth Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra Salzburg. She has performed in prestigious concert halls such as the Großer Saal Mozarteum, Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg, Gasteig Munich, Allerheiligenhofkirche Munich, Auditorio Nacional Madrid and Carnegie Hall in New York.
The season 2023/24 includes solo performances with the AOV Orchestra of Göttingen conducted by Piero Lombardi and chamber music concerts in concert series like the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, the Warburger Meisterkonzerte, the Konzert-Freundeskreis Telgte, the Göttinger Kammermusikgesellschaft e.V. among others.
She began studying the violin at age five. At the age of nine, she was accepted as a Pre-College student at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and attended the Leopold Mozart Institute programme for highly gifted students. She studied with renowned teachers such as Igor Ozim and Esther Hoppe at the Mozarteum Salzburg, Donald Weilerstein, Li Lin and Ronald Copes at the Juilliard School in New York, at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin with Ulf Wallin and at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía with Ana Chumachenco from 2019-2020. Larissa completed her Master's and Konzertexamen studies with Prof. Friedemann Eichhorn in Weimar, where she took the 1st completed part of the concert examination exam in February unanimously with distinction. At the 2nd exam in December 2024 she will perform the 1st violin concerto by Szymanowski with the Weimar University Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir Jurowski. She completed her studies with Janine Jansen at HEMU Vaud-Valais in Sion in June 2024.
She has received scholarships from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and the "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben".
The season 2023/24 includes solo performances with the AOV Orchestra of Göttingen conducted by Piero Lombardi and chamber music concerts in concert series like the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, the Warburger Meisterkonzerte, the Konzert-Freundeskreis Telgte, the Göttinger Kammermusikgesellschaft e.V. among others.
She began studying the violin at age five. At the age of nine, she was accepted as a Pre-College student at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and attended the Leopold Mozart Institute programme for highly gifted students. She studied with renowned teachers such as Igor Ozim and Esther Hoppe at the Mozarteum Salzburg, Donald Weilerstein, Li Lin and Ronald Copes at the Juilliard School in New York, at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin with Ulf Wallin and at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía with Ana Chumachenco from 2019-2020. Larissa completed her Master's and Konzertexamen studies with Prof. Friedemann Eichhorn in Weimar, where she took the 1st completed part of the concert examination exam in February unanimously with distinction. At the 2nd exam in December 2024 she will perform the 1st violin concerto by Szymanowski with the Weimar University Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir Jurowski. She completed her studies with Janine Jansen at HEMU Vaud-Valais in Sion in June 2024.
She has received scholarships from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and the "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben".