Alfia Bakieva

Alfia Bakieva

Baroque Violin
Alfia Bakieva is a violinist of Tatar origin, currently based in Salzburg, Austria. She has developed an international career with particular emphasis on Baroque music and historically informed performance practice, regularly performing as a soloist, concertmaster, and principal player in ensembles specialised in early music. She began her violin studies with E. Baskina at the Novosibirsk Specialized Music School and continued her training in Baroque violin with Enrico Onofri (Conservatory of Palermo) and Hiro Kurosaki (Mozarteum University Salzburg). She has specialised in the repertoires of the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods, with a particular focus on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music. Between 2004 and 2008, she served as assistant concertmaster and solo violinist of Musica Aeterna at the State Opera and Ballet Theatre of Novosibirsk under the direction of Teodor Currentzis, an experience that profoundly shaped her artistic and interpretative trajectory.

Throughout her career, Alfia Bakieva has received numerous distinctions and scholarships, including support from the Shostakovich family at the 7th Dmitri Shostakovich International String Quartet Competition. She was a finalist at the Bruges Early Music Competition in 2017 and, in 2018, won all three chamber music prizes at the Göttingen Händel Competition. In 2023 she was nominated for the “Addicted to Bach” prize, established by the family of Nobel laureate Günter Blobel. In 2021 she participated in the Jumpstart Jr. auditions in Amsterdam, and was awarded a historic Francesco Ruggeri violin (Cremona, 1680) for a period of seven years. In 2024 she recorded a solo album of violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi for the Alia Vox label with Le Musicienne du Concert des Nations, under the direction of Jordi Savall. In January 2025 she was invited to play the 1764 “Dalla Costa” violin associated with W. A. Mozart at the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg as part of the Mozart Festival.

She is currently active as a soloist, concertmaster and principal player in ensembles such as Il Pomo d’Oro, Ensemble Hemiolia, Le Musicienne du Concert des Nations, Il Concerto Scirocco, Cappella Mediterranea, Dresden Festspiel Orchester, Bonne Corde, Ensemble Imaginarium and Ensemble Ludovice. Alongside her early music activities, Alfia Bakieva is also a multi-instrumentalist with experience in traditional instruments such as the folk violin, kylkobiz and ghizzhak, and is a founding member of the ensemble Ekiyat, dedicated to preserving and reinterpreting Tatar musical traditions. She also maintains occasional collaborations in other genres, including tango, having worked with the Argentine Tango Orchestra Rascasuelos.

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