Home | Biography | Worklist | Music | Reviews | Gallery | Store | Contact EVGENIA EPSHTEIN The Russian-born Jewish violinist Evgenia Epshtein is a member and co-founder of the world-renowned Aviv String Quartet. She is also a noted solo performer and has toured in over 80 countries, performing classical as well as contemporary compositions. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress (Washington) and many other world venues. Her performances, both solo and with various chamber ensembles, have earned innumerable positive reviews among leading media outlets, such as the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe etc. She currently records for the world’s leading classical music label Naxos, and plays a classic seventeenth century violin by Ruggeri, granted by the American-Israeli Cultural Foundation. Since 2007 she has been Assistant Professor at Rotterdam Royal Academy. Her string quartet is a winner of the 3rd Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition (1999, Grand Prix and 4 Special Prizes), Bordeaux String Quartet Competition (2003), Charles Hennen Chamber Music Competition (1999, Netherlands), Prague Spring Quartets Competition (1998) and other top prizes. They have recorded a complete set of Shostakovich’s string quartets, among dozens of other works from the Baroque to the Contemporary. She has been invited to teach at the Winter Session of the Joseph Haydn Institut für Kammermusik in Vienna (January 2008); she will be a part of the jury of the 4th Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna (April 2009). Prof. Epshtein’s collaboration with Edward Manukyan began in early 2008, after they met in Santa Barbara, California and she currently performs most of the composer’s violin music. In September 2008 she will perform Manukyan’s “Three Scenes from a Peasant’s Life” at the Armenian State Opera House in Yerevan, in front of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra. She will also participate in other concert projects during her month-long visit to Armenia. More information will be available soon.