Violeta Shopova

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Violeta Shopova is a 22-year-old violinist from Sydney, Australia. She gave her debut public solo recital this year on the 26th of September, at the Women’s Club in Sydney, performing solo violin standard repertoire, compositions by female composers, and piano trio repertoire. She is the recipient of multiple scholarships, including the Sandro Asinari 2010 Violin Loan and the George and Margaret Henderson Scholarship for international studies. In January and February of this year, these scholarships have allowed her to perform with the Macedonian Opera and Ballet in major productions of Scheherazade, Walpurgis Night and Cavalleria Rusticana. Recently, Violeta has participated in a masterclass with Silvia Marcovici at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria, and at the Ohrid Summer Music Festival with Prof. Emilio Percan at the International Music Masterclasses (IMMC) in Ohrid, Macedonia.

Violeta’s solo performances include several appearances at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music String and Chamber Music Lunchtime Concerts, Olli Mustonen Masterclass for Modern Composition, Fintan Murphy Masterclass and a string quartet masterclass with American violist, Eric Wong. She is a passionate chamber music performer, having performed many concerts with her piano trio at public events in Sydney this year, including mostly recently the piano trio in g minor by Clara Schumann at the Goethe Institute Cultural Day and at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Lunchtime Concerts. In September this year, she performed with the renowned violinist, Anthony Marwood in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music String Orchestra, performing the Vasks Violin Concerto “Distant Light” at ACO, On The Pier.

Violeta has been a member of the Fames Institute Orchestra in 2023 and 2025 having performed in international festivals, recording orchestral music, and being invited to record with the Fames Project orchestra in 2025. In 2023, she performed with the Fames Institute Orchestra at St. Sophia Church with Irina Muresanu (University of Maryland) at the 63rd Ohrid Summer Music Festival, at the French Embassy in Skopje, Macedonia for Bastille Day, and in Bucharest, Romania at the National University of Music.

Violeta began playing the violin at the age of six and shortly after began studying in the class of Natasha Stojanovska. In her youth, she has performed and won prizes at many Violin Eisteddfods, such as the St George Eisteddfod. She is currently in her fourth year of university at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music completing her Bachelors Degree in Music Performance alongside a second major in Business Law. Violeta currently studies violin with Prof. Goetz Richter at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Additionally, she has also studied with distinguished professors such as Prof. Oleg Kondratenko, Prof. Evgeny Sorkin and Prof. Timothy Kantor. Violeta studies chamber music with Prof. Timothy Kantor and Prof. Daniel Yeadon and has also studied with Prof. Julian Smiles.