Shir Victoria Levy

New York City-born violinist Shir Victoria Levy is the youngest musician ever to win the Kaufman Center Concerto Competition (1st Prize,). Shir won the Special Music School Concerto Competition (1st Prize), Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society competition (1st Prize); “American Protégé International Piano and Strings” Competition (1st Prize and Judges Award). She has performed at Merkin Concert Hall, Steinway Hall, New Jersey PAC, Tel-Aviv Opera House in Israel and had her Carnegie Hall debut with Ida Haendel. She participated in many international festivals including Bowdoin, USA and Keshet Eilon, Israel. She played in master classes for Ida Haendel, Ivry Gitlis, Maxim Vengerov, Shlomo Mintz, Itzhak Perlman, Yair Kless, Eduard Grach, Dylana Jenson, and Pinchas Zukerman. Shir made her concerto debut at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York with the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra in May 2014 performing Szymanowski Concerto No. 1. Under the tutelage of Tomotada Soh, she graduated with a BMus degree from the Royal Academy of Music where she is currently completing her Master of Music under the tutelage of Levon Chilingirian. Shir performed Bach Sonata No. 2 on Luca Alessandrini’s Spider-Silk Violin at the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of London Design Festival 2016 and at ExCel London as part of New Scientist Live 2016. Shir performed at Love Supreme Festival July 2017, collaborating with a Harmoniumist to create a Sound Healing performance. In the fall of 2018, Shir will perform Bartok Violin Concerto No. 1 with the London Graduate Orchestra as well as a recording with Ensemble Eroica. She immensely enjoys crossing modalities in performance art, marrying dance, acting, music and live action painting. She will premiere seven composers' pieces for Solo Violin and male actor and will perform them at London’s Cockpit Theatre in September 2018 as part of her final thesis project. Shir plays a 1772 Nicolo Gagliano violin.