Violin – Belcea Quartet
Romania
Corina Belcea was born in Romania in 1975 and studied the violin with Radu Bozgan and Ştefan Gheorghiu. At the age of 16, she was invited by Sir Yehudi Menuhin to study at his school in England, where her teacher was Nata lia Boyarskaya. She continued her studies at the Royal College of Music with Felix Andrievsky, where, in 1994, she founded the Belcea Quartet.
Corina is a prize winner of the Yehudi Menuhin, Kloster Schöntal and Wieniawski competitions and has performed at Wigmore Hall, the Barbican Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room in London, the Athénée in Bucharest, the Théâtres du Cha ̂telet and the Champs-Élysées. With the Belcea Quartet, she won the Bordeaux and Osaka competitions.
Corina was professor of chamber music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and, since 2011, she has been professor of violin violin at the Bern University of the Arts. She has been a jury member of the ARD chamber music competition in Munich and the Queen Elisabeth violin competition in Brussels and has recently started teaching violin and chamber music at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel.
In 2023, she was president of the International String Quartet Competition ̀ Cordes de Genève. She recently performed the Brahms Double Concerto as a soloist with Antoine Lederlin and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the Ysaÿe Double Sonata with Vilde Frang.
Corina Belcea plays a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1755) kindly loaned by MERITO String Instruments Trusts Vienna.
