TANIA PASSENDJI violin
Born in Paris, Tania began learning the violin at the age of nine, later achieving a violin diploma at the Regional Conservatoire of Rueil-Malmaison. Tania moved to Switzerland to complete her bachelor’s degree at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève before continuing her studies with a Master of Arts in Performance with Sergey Ostrovsky, and has completed a Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana.
As a student in Switzerland, Tania was fortunate to play under the baton of Emmanuel Krivine, Kazuki Yamada and Tomas Netopil and has participated in several master classes with Ivry Gitlis, Stefan Picard, Sylvie Gazeau and Olivier Charlier.
During her studies, Tania won a bursary to play for a year as Principal Second Violin with La Sinfonietta de Genève, performing as a soloist with the orchestra for various concerts including Haydn’s Symphonie Concertante for violin, cello, oboe and bassoon. Tania has also appeared as a soloist at the festival of the International Music Academy of Solsona in Spain and performed a concerto for four violins with the orchestra of the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana.
A keen chamber musician, Tania plays regularly with a quartet, recently winning a competition to perform a concert at the Theatre du Passage of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). Tania also plays regularly as a violin-piano duo and currently performs as a member of the chamber orchestra of Lugano.