Berfin A.

Berfin A. is a world-wide known solo violinist. She is a London-based professional musician, an expanding performance artist, and a music teacher, born in Ankara, Turkey. Berfin specialised in violin, branching out to piano, singing, and embodied movement. She has been a professional musician for over 16 years.

Berfin recently graduated from the Royal Academy with First Class Honours, where she studied with Jack Liebeck. Starting her studies with violin in Ankara, in 2011 she won the Young Musician of the Year in the Andante Classical Music Prize. From 2012 until 2016 she continued her studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School where she studied with Lutsia Ibragimova.

In 2017, Berfin was invited to give a TEDx speech in Ankara. She has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Tonhalle Hall and participated in concerts with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kammerphilharmonie Bodensee Orchestra. Throughout her career, Berfin has won multiple violin competitions. In February of this year, she performed the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Bursa Symphony Orchestra in Turkey, conducted by Antonio Pirolli.

In 2019, Berfin was a soloist in the Max Bruch Album performing the Adagio Appassionato which was recorded on the Sony Classical Label. Berfin performs on a Nicolaus Gagliano violin (1751) kindly given to her by her family and donors of the CEV Foundation.

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