VIOLETTA SUVINI
VIOLINIST
Described as ‘an artist of great originality and vision’, Irish-Italian violinist Violetta Suvini is a City Music Foundation Artist and recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Emily Anderson Prize 2024.
She has performed chamber music in venues such as Wigmore Hall, St Martin in the Fields, Holywell Music Room; for series such as Barnes Concert Society and Leeds International Lunchtime; and at festivals including the Venice Biennale, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh, Newbury, Bath International, Bloomsbury, and Oxford Chamber. 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’s radio broadcasts include the UK premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s ‘A Thousand Tongues’ on BBC Radio 3, and Ravel’s ‘Sonate Posthume’ for Swiss radio SRF.
Deeply committed to new music, Violetta’s engagement with contemporary performance 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’, and performing Steve Reich with Colin Currie Group at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music.
She was a Britten Pears Young Artist for the 24-25 season, leading the Britten Pears Contemporary Music Ensemble in works by Goehr, Matthews, Turnage, Saariaho and six new world premieres at the Aldeburgh Festival 2025, which the Arts Desk described as ‘dazzling’.
During her studies at Oxford University, Violetta received 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.
She is excited by the interdisciplinary reach of Komuna Collective, and the space it forges for unbridled musical, textual, and artistic exploration.