Vesna Stankovic

A sought-after soloist, chamber musician, orchestra leader and pedagogue, violinist Vesna Stankovic was a winner of many competitions in her native ex-Yugoslavia, before coming to the US to study at the Curtis Institute and The Juilliard School where she worked with the renowned violinist, conductor and teacher Szymon Goldberg. Born in Belgrade, Serbia, she is currently professor of violin at the University of the Arts in Graz, Austria, as well as a concertmaster of the Vienna Volksoper. She was the 1986 finalist in the Tchaikovsky Violin Competition in Moscow and has performed extensively as a soloist in all major cities around Europe, USA and Asia. As a leading member of one of the most famous chamber orchestras – The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and as a concertmaster of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, she has collaborated with some of the most respected conductors and soloists: Claudio Abbado, Nicolas Harnoncourt, Paavo Berglund, Andreas Schiff, Heinrich Schiff, Sandor Vegh, Gidon Kremer and many others. As a chamber musician she has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Tonhalle Zürich, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Vienna Konzerthaus, with members of the Hagen Quartett at festivals in Mattsee and Nürnberg and she was artistic director of the Toyama Chamber Music Festival in Japan from 2006-2010. As a dedicated teacher, her students are recipients of top prizes at many international competitions and are regular winners of orchesatra auditions in Austria and Germany (Volksoper, Radio Orchestra - RSO, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Salzburg Camerata, Mannheim Orchestra, Graz Opera – to name a few. She has taught at the Belgrade Academy of Music and has held a number of masterclasses: Courchevel, Glazgow, Lisbon, Toyama, Aleksandrovac, Ptuj, Belgrade, Ljubljana. Vesna Stankovic plays on the violin by Jacob Steiner 1671 given to her on loan by the Austrian National Bank.

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