| Alissa Margulis was born in 1981 in Freiburg into a family of russian musicians. She started to play the violin at age 4 with prof. W. Marschner and also the piano. She gave her first public performance at age 7. With 10 years she won the 1.prize at the Spohr Yuth Competition and later the 1.prize at the Bundeswettbewerb 'Jugend musiziert'. With 13 years she became a pupil of Zakhar Bron at the Musikhochschule Koeln. Further musical advice and participation in masterclasses she received from Ana Chumachenko, Vladimir Spivakov, Ida Haendel, Shlomo Mintz, Gyorgy Pauk, Herman Krebbers, Augustin Dumay, Ivry Gitlis. She is a prizewinner of many competitions: Wieniawsky Competition in Poland, the Concorso Viotti (Vercelli), the Unisa String Competition in Pretoria, Osaka Chambermusic Competition, Concorso Vittorio Gui in Florence. In 2002 she received the prix d'encouragement “Pro Europa” by Daniel Barenboim in Berlin, where she performed at the Berlin Opera and the Chateau Bellevue. Alissa Margulis has has been invited to perform as a soloist and chambermusic in many international festivals as the Tours, Davos and Gstaad festivals, the Encuentro di musica Santander, Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival, the Lockenhaus Festspiele by Gidon Kremer, the Menton Festival in Monaco. She played with the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Südwestfunk Orchestra, the Budapest soloists, the Johannesburg Symphony, the Prague Symphony, the NDR Orchestra and others and she received the “nouvelle artiste” award of the year in 2004 at the Juventus Festival de Cambrai. |
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