VIOLETTA SUVINI
VIOLINIST
Violetta is the 2024 recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Emily Anderson Prize, and a 2025-2027 City Music Foundation Artist.
She was awarded First Prize at the Premio Internazionale Il Suono Giovane 2024 with pianist Henry Lewis, and third prize at the Renzo Giubergia International Chamber Music Competition 2024.
A passionate chamber musician, Violetta has performed chamber music internationally in venues such as Wigmore Hall, St Martin in the Fields, St John’s Smith Square, Holywell Music Room, Associazione Kelis Firenze, Philharmonie Essen, NHK Hall Tokyo and for series such as Barnes Concert Society and Leeds International. Performances at major festivals include Aldeburgh Festival, Schiermonnikoog Festival, Classical:NEXT, Bloomsbury Festival, Newbury Festival, and Oxford Chamber Music Festival. 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.
As a Britten-Pears Young Artist for the 24-25 season, Violetta performed six world premieres at the Aldeburgh Festival 2025 and led the contemporary chamber ensemble through works by Matthews, Turnage and Goehr. 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.
Violetta graduated from 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 held the Yfrah Neaman Memorial Scholarship and studied with Stephanie Gonley.
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. 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.