Lirza Zaloshnja

Born in Tirana, Albania in 1989, Lirza Zaloshnja studied at the Tirana University of the Arts graduating in 2011 with the Gold Medal in Violin performance. She has also attended master classes with Crtomir Siskovic, Susanne Stoodt, Daniele Guy, Marco Pontini, Robin O'Neill, Eugene Michelangeli and Fanny Vovoni. Since 2011 Lirza has been a member at the first violins of the Albanian National Radio Television Symphonic Orchestra. In 2013 she performed as soloist with the orchestra under the Swiss conductor Simon Camartin. In September 2016 she will again be soloist with the orchestra when she gives the European premier of the Irish composer Vincent Kennedy’s concerto Dreams conducted by the composer in Tirana. From 2015 Lirza is stable jury member at the ENKOR international Competition. Lirza performs with Dalibor Karvay (violin), Merita Rexha Tërshana (piano), Nadia Kossinskaja (guitar), Silva Skënderi (piano), Vincent Kennedy (conductor&composer), Simon Camartin (conductor), Musa Göçmen (conductor) and has performed with them at many festivals including Reformierte Kirche Rotkreuz in Switzerland; The Tirana International Guitar Festival; The Asia International Guitar Festival in Thailand; Music Bridges Festival in Groznjan Croatia; and the Concert Festival of the Tirana University of Arts. From 2000 to 2003 Lirza was a member of the ensemble Tirana Little Virtuosos with whom she performed in Spain, Hungary and Germany and at the 50th European Festival of Young Musicians in Belgium where the ensemble was awarded first prize. From 2003 to 2008 she performed with the New German-Albanian Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Tirana Music Festival. Between 2008 and 2011 she was the concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra of Tirana University of the Arts. In 2009 she was elected as the concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra of the Monopoly Conservatory of Music in Italy. Lirza Zaloshnja plays a violin by Anton Neuburger and uses bows by G.Werner and C.Chagas.