Biography
The international prize winner Larissa Cidlinsky is building a reputation as an outstanding and versatile young string soloist. She currently studies with Janine Jansen in HEMU Vaud-Valais. Most recently she was awarded 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. In 2010, she won first prize in the International Competition Concorso Internazionale ANEMOS in Rome.
As a soloist, Larissa Cidlinsky has performed with orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestra of Sibiu, the chamber orchestra of Regensburg and Wasserburg, the Chiemgau Orchestra, 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. She is founder and artistic director of the festival "Eggenfelden klassisch", together with the cellist Anton Spronk. In 2016 she won a scholarship from Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz, where she has the opportunity to play with artists such as Fazil Say, Lauma & Baiba Skride, Martin Beaver, Wen Xiao Zheng and the Calidore String Quartet. The violinist has been invited to participate in prestigious programs as Chamber Music Connects the World in Kronberg (with Gidon Kremer, Tabea Zimmermann, Jörg Widmann and Christian Tetzlaff), Open Chamber Music Seminar in Prussia Cove, Chamber Music Academy Festival Hohenstaufen, Mahler Academy Bozen, Lockenhaus-Festival and International Summer Academy ISA. Further musical impulses she received from Thomas Brandis, Kurt Sassmanshaus, Gerhard Schulz, Kolja Blacher, Nora Chastain, Mihaela Martin, Eberhard Feltz, Tanja Becker-Bender and Ingolf Turban. Larissa Cidlinsky has been concertmaster of the „Hochschulorchester Weimar“, the Salzburg Youth Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra Salzburg and has been invited as guest concertmaster to the NiederbayPhilharmonic Orchestra Gera Altenburg. She has performed in prestigious concert halls such as Großer Saal Mozarteum, Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg, Gasteig Munich, Allerheiligenhofkirche Munich, Audimax Regensburg, Auditorio Nacional Madrid and Carnegie Hall in New York. |
She began to learn the violin at the age of five. At age of nine, she was accepted at the Mozarteum in Salzburg as a Precollege student and attended the “Leopold-Mozart-Institut” program 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 School for Music Berlin with Ulf Wallin and at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía with Ana Chumachenco from 2019-2020. Larissa finished studied her master and concert exam with Prof. Friedemann Eichhorn in Weimar. She currently gets lessons with Janine Jansen at the HEMU Vaud-Valais.
She received scholarships from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and the "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben"
She received scholarships from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and the "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben"