Swiss Global Artistic Foundation

Alexandra Conunova was born in 1988, in Kishinev, Republic of Moldova, into a family of musicians. She began violin at the age of 6, in the class of Prof. Galina Buinovschi. From 2006 to 2010 she studied with Prof Munteanu, and was awarded the "Horst-Rahe" scholarship in Rostock, Germany.

Presently Ms Conunova studies with Prof. K. Wegrzyn in Hannover, Germany, and is laureate of many international contests: Kloster Schöntal, Henri Marteau, Nuri Yicil, Ion Voicu and Tibor Varga, among others. She regularly performs concerts with various orchestras, in countries such as Bulgaria, Russia, Moldova, Germany, France, Switzerland, Romania and Turkey. She has participated in masterclasses with the following professors: Viktor Pikaizen, Igor Oistrach, Stefan Ruha, Serban Lupu, Marine Iashvili, Igor Ozim, Baiba Skride, Sergey Kravchenko, Boris Kuschnir and Alexander Vinnitski.

Ms Conunova has been invited to play in various festivals, such as Schweriner Schloss Festspiele, Festspiele - Mecklenburg Vorpormmen and Radio France Festival in Montpellier. She has performed with conducters such as Robert Luther, Johannes Wildner, Ilarion Ionescu-Galati, Alexandru Lascae, Mihail Agafita, Iurie Florea, Patrick Strub, Christfried Göckeritz, Niklas Willen, Juhanni Numminen, A. Samoila and Gabor Tagaci-Nagy.

In April 2009, Ms Conunova released her first chamber music CD of Brahms and Mozart clarintet quintets, featuring the "Conunova Quartet" and the solo clarinetist of the Stattskapelle Berlin, Professor at the HMT Rostock, Heiner Schindler. In 2010, she performed with the Istanbul Chamber Orchestra, Hoffer Sinfoniker and Iasi National Filarmony.

A major winner in February 2011 at the Deutsche Instrumenten-Musik Fond competition, Ms Conunova was awarded use of a Santo Seraphin violin (Venice 1735) for one year.

In 2011 she will perform in St. Petersburg in the Theater Hermitage, with Orchestra "Hermitage", as well as at the opening concert of the Henri Marteau International Competition.

Ms Conunova is currently a soloist with the National Moldavian Filarmonie, and plays the "Vincenzo Rugieri" violin dated 1720. The instrument was a donation from the "Sinfonima" Foundation of the Mannheim Assurance.