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Anna Tifu
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Anna Tifu
Anna Tifu

Anna Tifu was born in Cagliari in 1986 and began her violin studies with her father at the age of 6. At the age of 8 she began her studies with Salvatore Accardo continuing at the W. Stauffer Academy in Cremona and the Chingiana Academy in Siena where she graduated with Honours. At the age of 11 she made her solo debut as soloist with the Orchestra National de Pays de La Loire on a French tour and as a result was invited to perform at the 10th International Mozart Festival in Rovereto as soloist with the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento. At the age of 12 she made her debut at La Scala Milan performing the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1.

In 1994 she won first prize with distinction at the Vittorio Veneto concert series and in 1996 the Società Umanitaria di Milano competition.  In 1997 she won 3 prizes at the Kloster Schöntal International Competition in Germany including the prize for best performance of Bach.  In the same year at Santa Cecilia Academy of Music in Rome she won the S.I.A.E. (the Italian Society of Authors and Editors) competition for the best students from the Italian Music Academies. 

At 14 she won first prize in the Viotti Valsesia International Competition and first prize in the International Competition M. Abbado Competition in Stresa, along with many other awards and prizes.

She received her Music Diploma from the Cagliari Academy of Music at the age of 15 and in 2007 was awarded the Primio Donna Sarda prize and First Prize at the George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest.

In 2001, 2004 and 2005 she was awarded a scholarship from the Mozart-Gesellschaft Dortmund.  From 2005 to 2008 she studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Aaron Rosand, Shmuel Ashkenazy and Pamela Frank and most recently she was awarded a scholarship by the International Music Academy in Cagliari to study in Paris and was awarded the Diplome Superier de Concertiste.

As a soloist she has collaborated with the Orchestra Sinfonica Toscanini, Orchestra Philharmonic of the Nations, Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari, Romanian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Limburg Sinphonie Orkest of Maastricht, Orchestra del Teatro Minimo di Palermo and the Chamber Orchestras of Prague, Munich, Essen and Mantova.

She plays a Carlo Bergonzi violin, Cremona 1739 known as "Mischa Piastro" on loan from the Associazione Pro Canale of Milan.


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