NINA BEILINA: Violin/Artistic Director


• Studied with Abraham Yampolsky, Julius Eidlin and David Oistrakh.

• Gold Medal at the Enescu International Competition.

• Grand Prix at the Long -Thibaud International Competition.

• Bronze Medal at the Tchaikovsky International Competition.

• Gold Medal in Vercelli, Italy as Musician of the Year in 1983.
(Shares this honor with Renata Tebaldi, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli,
and Igor Stravinsky.)

• Currently professor at the Mannes College of Music in New York City, and instructor of annual master classes in Itally.

• Performed in 2006 in Taiwan, Germany, Austria, Italy and Russia.

NINA BEILINA in the Press:

“Moscow is the Motherland of the world-famous Russian School which has
produced three generations of violinists - Heifetz and Ellman, then Oistrakh
and Kogan, and now Beilina…”
- Henryk Szeryng, Soviet Culture

“Russia’s loss is our gain”
- The New York Times

“A violin technique equal to all demands, the phrasing exact yet free as the flight of a bird.”
- London Times

“The hands are on fire”
- Das Orchestra

“Nina Beilina is a violinist, so passionate and exuberant, who at her wish could set fire to the world.”
- Il Tempo

“Music making of such nobility and distinction is rare.”
- Boris Schwarz, Great Masters of the Violin

“Sheer talent must be the main explanation.”
- Patrick Sullivan, Strings