Viola
Dr. Adelya Shagidullina
“Most impressive…exceptional playing.” - The American Prize
“…elegance, grace, and a pure singing tone”, “…master..” - BroadStreetReview.com
Dr. Adelya Shagidullina is a prize-winning violist and violinist. Her numerous awards include top awards at the “Andrey Korsakov All Russian Music Competition”, “Eugen Coca International Music Competition”, and “Togliatti International Competition”, as well as the First Prize and Special Prize for the best performance of a commissioned work at the International “J. S. Bach Competition”. In November 2016, Dr. Shagidullina was announced the First Prize winner of the “American Protege International Competition”, and a winner of the prestigious “The American Prize Competition” in the Professional Division. The former award won her an opportunity to give a solo performance in Carnegie Hall in December 2016. Dr. Shagidullina returned to Carnegie Hall in June 2019 for a solo performance as a top winner of the LISMA International competition (August 2017). In May 2018 she became a winner of Beverly Hills National Auditions, which won her concert engagements in Encinitas, Torrance, and Beverly Hills, CA, in May 2019.
From 2009 through 2015 Ms. Shagidullina was on the roster of iPalpiti Artists International, as well as a principal violist and a soloist of the iPalpiti Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Shagidullina has performed in such venues as Saydashev State Big Concert Hall in Kazan, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, and St. Petersburg Philharmonic (Russia), as well as Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, among others. As the iPalpiti soloist, Ms. Shagidullina appeared in the “New York Benefactors Series” at the residence of Charles Avery Fisher and was featured in “Sundays Live!” radio broadcast chamber concerts.
Ms. Shagidullina is an active solo, chamber, and orchestra musician, as well as a dedicated teacher.
In 2014, she joined the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia for its American tour with Branford Marsalis and continued performing with the orchestra since then through 2016. She appeared in various chamber concert series, such as Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Bargemusic, Ltd., BCENY Concert evenings, Mallery Concert Series, Embassy Concert Series, and Candlelight Concert Series. In May 2016 she was invited to join the Fine Art Music Company concert series and actively performed with the group through 2019. Dr. Shagidullina is a violist of The Embassy String Quartet since September of 2021, and a Principal Violist of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra since October of 2023. She currently performs with such groups as Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and Harrisbourg Symphony Orchestra, among others. In February of 2023 Dr. Shagidullina joined the roster of the Serafin Ensemble for its winter festival, and has been performing with them since then.
Ms. Shagidullina collaborated with such prominent musicians as Dmitry Berlinsky, Svetlana Smolina, Luiza Borac, Mark Peskanov, and Branford Marsalis, to name a few.
Over the past ten years, Adelya Shagidullina has taught extensively at both public and private institutions, including Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance and School of Mahanaim in the United States, and at Kazan State Conservatory and Kazan Special Music College in Russia. She has also privately tutored students and instructed several chamber music groups in Russia as well as in the U.S. While in Russia, she coached the Junior viola section of the Youth Symphony Orchestra in Tolyatti and appeared as a member of the jury at the “Kazan Special Music College Competition”. After moving to the United States to pursue her graduate degrees, Ms. Shagidullina continued her teaching career as a graduate teaching assistant at Temple Music Preparatory Division, as a Graduate Chamber Coach at Boyer College of Music and Dance, and as a teaching assistant in the studio of Professor Eduard Schmieder, as well as a private tutor in violin and viola. She held masterclasses at Rowan University and Gracias Music Festival at the School of Mahanaim.
During her years of studying, Adelya Shagidullina has studied with professor Eduard Schmieder, the violist of the American Quartet, Daniel Avshalomov, and a Grammy-award winning artist, Professor Lambert Orkis.
Ms. Shagidullina holds a Doctoral degree in Musical Arts from Temple University, Philadelphia PA.
Personal website: https://www.adelyaviola.com/
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