Aida-Carmen Soanea, an eclectic and charismatic violist, will be the teacher of the viola masterclass from 19th to 26th August during the 6th International Masterclasses Narni 2016.

Born into a family of Romanian singer, Aida Carmen Soanea studied from 1995 to 1999 at the Freiburg University School of Music and at the Berliner Hochschule "Hanns Eisler“ in the class of Kim Kashkashian. She found new inspiration in Paris pursuing her soloists studies at the CNSM de Paris with Gerard Causse. She was influenced and received big musical input from artists like Juri Bashmet, but especially Claudio Abbado, whom she encountered regularly as a member of Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, later on also as a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and as substitute with the Berliner Philharmoniker. 

As a soloist, Aida-Carmen has appeared in music festivals, such as Internationale Osterfestspiele Luzern, Rheingau Musikfestival, Musikfestspiele Sanssouci, Musikfestival Mecklenburg Vorpommern and she has performed with different ensemble formations.

From 2007 to 2015 Aida-Carmen Soanea was a founding member of the Delian Quartet. In that chamber music formation, she appeared at Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, the Ludwigsburger Festspiele and Schwetzinger Festspiele.

Aida Carmen Soanea's feeling and connection to Contemporary Music is very strong, so her regular participation in the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt is part of it. She works together with different living composers and several works were dedicated to her.

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