Violetta Suvini
RPS Emily Anderson Prize | £1,500
Irish-Italian violinist Violetta Suvini graduated in 2023 from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she held the Yfrah Neaman Memorial Scholarship and studied with Stephanie Gonley. Her postgraduate studies were supported by the Kathleen Trust, the Humphrey Richardson Taylor Trust, and the Harrison Frank Family Foundation, from whom she is loaned an Italian violin. Prior to this, Violetta studied 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. She attended the Yehudi Menuhin School as a child and later studied with Lorraine McAslan.
Violetta has won first prize at multiple competitions including the Premio Internazionale Il Suono Giovane, the Rovere d’Oro Concorso Internazionale and the D’Addario Festival String Competition. She is also a Britten Pears Young Artist for the 2024-25 season. Violetta has benefitted from solo masterclasses with Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Philippe Graffin and Ensemble Intercontemporain, and performed chamber music in venues such as Wigmore Hall, St Martin in the Fields, St John’s Smith Square, and for multiple BBC Radio 3 'Total Immersion' broadcasts. Her appearances at festivals include Aldeburgh Festival 2025, Schiermonnikoog Festival Masterclasses 2025, Classical:NEXT Berlin 2025, Bloomsbury Festival 2024, and Oxford Chamber Music Festival 2021.
Violetta is a founding member of Trio Casella, an award-winning piano trio based in London. Violetta also performs with Komuna Collective, a group of contemporary musicians and artists supported by Arts Council England, Oxford Cultural Programme and PRS Foundation.
Violetta writes:
'I am honoured to be this year’s recipient of the RPS Emily Anderson Prize and humbled to join a list of violinists whom I admire so much. This prize will allow me to organise recitals and concerto appearances across the UK, performing lesser-known works alongside core repertoire. It will also allow me to pay my collaborators, both pianists and composers, and give me the space to dedicate myself to studying new repertoire. I’m very grateful to the Royal Philharmonic Society for this award which will make a huge difference to supporting my musical development over the next year and beyond.'