Corina Belcea

Corina Belcea was born in Romania in 1975 and studied the violin with Radu Bozgan and Stefan Gheorghiu. At the age of 16 she was invited by Sir Yehudi Menuhin to study at his school in England where her teacher was Natalia 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 at the Yehudi Menuhin, Kloster Schöntal and Wieniawski competitions and has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Queen Elisabeth Hall and Purcell Room in London, Atheneum Bucharest, Theatre des Châtelet and Champs-Élysée. Together with the Belcea quartet she has won the Bordeaux and the Osaka competitions.

Corina was professor of chamber music at the Guildhall school of music and drama in London and since 2011 she is Violin Professor at the University for the Arts in Bern. She has served on the jury for the ARD chamber music competition in Munich and the Queen Elisabeth violin competition in Brussels and has recently started coaching violin and chamber music at the Queen Elisabeth music Chapel.

This year she will be chairwoman of the Geneva International String Quartet competition. Recent solo performances include Brahms double concerto with her husband Antoine Lederlin and Warsaw Philharmonic and the Ysaÿe double sonata with Vilde Frang.