Corina Belcea-Fisher, violin

Corina Belcea-Fisher was born in Romania in 1975 and began
playing the violin at the age of six. Her teachers in Romania
were Radu Bozgan and Stefan Gheorghiu. In 1991, as a result
of her participation in the Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition,
she was invited by the late Lord Menuhin to study at the
Yehudi Menuhin School where her teacher was Natalia
Boyarskaya. After graduating from the Menuhin School
Corina continued her studies at the Royal College with
Dr. Felix Andrievsky.

Her competition prizes include the 1st Prize in the
Kloster Schontal Internation Competition (Germany),
second prizes in the Wieniawski International
Competition (Lublin) and the Yehudi Menuhin
International Competition (Folkestone) and the first
prize in the Bromsgrove Festival. In 1998 she was the
winner of the Lasmo Staffa award.

Corina has performed as a soloist in Europe and The
Far East, in venues such as St. John Smith Square,
Queen Elisabeth Hall, Barbican Hall, Purcell Room,
Théâtre du Châtelet and Théâtre des
Champs-Élysées, where she joined members of
the Alban Berg Quartet for a perfomance of
Mozart's Symphonie Concertante.

Corina is a founding member of the Belcea quartet,
resident quartet at the Wigmore Hall in London from
2001 to 2006. The quartet has won 1st Prizes both
in the Osaka and the Bordeaux international
competitions and has been touring the world
extensively for the past eight years. In 2001 the
quartet was signed on by EMI for an exclusive
contract and have released eight CDs.

The quartet has appeared in major festivals around
the world, as well as venues like Konzerthaus in
Vienna, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Paris Chatelet
and Cite de la Musique, Copenhagen’s Tivoli Hall,
Washington Library of Congress and New York
Carnegie Hall.

Corina plays a 1666 Stradivarius violin kindly
on loan from the Beare Family.