About Me
Anna-Liisa Bezrodny was born in 1981 into a family of musicians in Moscow. Already at the age of two she began her violin studies with her parents, and at the age of nine she entered the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, to the class of her parents, Prof. Igor Bezrodny and Prof. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny, later studying for MMUS degrees in both Sibelius Academy and Guildhall School of Music and Drama with K.Smietana, J.Glickman and O.Kogan.Anna-Liisa has succeeded in many competitions, such as in the Jan Kocian International Violin Competition in the Czech Republic (1995, 1st prize), the Sibelius Academy’s Violin Competition (1997, 1st prize), a special prize given by the Rotary Club (1999), the only prize given in the International Music Festival of Frankfurt, Germany (2000), recipient of the Ian Fleming Charitable Award of the Musicians Benevolent Fund (London,2003), prize winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Award, (London,2003), Hattori Foundation and Myra Hess Trust prizes, (London, 2004), Jasha Heifetz International Violin Competition (2005, 3rd prize), J.Brahms International Competition (2005, 2nd prize). In 2006 Anna-Liisa won the prestigious Guildhall Gold Medal, playing Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.1 in the Barbican Hall with Sian Edwards, same competition has been won by Bryn Terfel, Tasmin Little and Jaqueline du Pre, to name a few. In 2005 Anna-liisa Bezrodny was awarded the PROMIS Award for talented young musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra, and in the same year received an honorary prize from the Pro Musica Foundation in Finland.She has participated in several master-classes with such outstanding professors as Herman Krebbers, Yfrah Neaman, Igor Ozim, Liana Issakadze, Jaime Laredo, Sergei Kravchenko, Victor Danchenko, Sir Colin Davis, James MacMillan, Prof.Gerhard Schultz and many others. Anna-Liisa has constantly been invited to participate in numerous festivals, playing in both chamber ensembles as well as solo, such as Die Russische Musik Festival Dortmund (Germany), Internazionales Musikfest in Dietzenbach/Frankfurt (Germany), International Music Festival of Waterford (Ireland), Macmillan Festival, Carter Festival, Malta International Music Festival, Tallinn Chamber Music Festival, Sibelius Festival (USA), Turku Music Festival in Finland and others.Anna-Liisa’s playing has been heard on several occasions on Finnish and Estonian National TV´s and National Radio, as well as on NBC and BBC Radio 3. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Moscow Symphony Orchestra TV6 (in the Moscow Conservatory´s Great Hall), Helsinki Philharmonic (in Finlandia Hall), Estonian National Orchestra, Estonian Chamber Orchestra, Pärnu Philharmonic Orchestra, Jyvaskyla Chamber Orchestra (Finland), Turku Philharmonic, Vaasa Philharmonic Orchestra, Liepaja Symphony Orchestra (Latvia), Georgian Chamber Orchestra, Vilnius Philarmonic (Lithuania), Jena Philharmonic, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, South Bank Sinfonia, London Enseble (at Wigmore Hall, playing a world premiere of a solo piece), Guildhall Symphony Orchestra (Barbican Hall) and others. As a soloist Anna-Liisa has also collaborated with maestros such as Leif Segerstam, Eri Klas, Arvo Volmer, Paul Magi, Jyri Alperten, Nikolay Alekseyev, Tibor Boganyi, Sian Edwards, Juha Kangas etc, and she plays extensively with the renowned pianist Ivari Ilja. Currently she is holding the prestigious Leverhulme Chamber Fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Future plans include a tour over Finland playing Sibelius Concerto, and recording a CD with Ivari Ilja, to name only a few.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
