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    2024/DEC/07 · 10:00 PM
    Pinakothek der Moderne - Munich, Germany

  • Ula Ulijona Zebriunaite

    Ula Uljona Zebriunaite

    Bio

    Year of birth:
    1974

    Place of birth:
    Vilnius, Lithuania

    Studies:

    • Viola BA – Vilnius: Lithuanian Academy of Music, P. Radzevicius (1994-1998)

    • Viola Soloist Diploma – Basel: Musikakademie Basel, H. Beyerle (1999-2002)

    • Viola Soloist Diploma – Berlin: Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“, Tabea Zimmermann (2002-2005)

    Current job:
    First Viola of RAI National Symphony Orchestra Turin, Italy

    Website:
    ulaulijona.webs.com

    Contact:

    Biography:

    Lithuanian-born (1974) violist Ula Ulijona began her studies in her own city, Vilnius, later graduating as solo violist at the Berlin Musikhochschule “Hanns Eisler” with Tabea Zimmermann and at the “Basel Academy of Music” with Hatto Bayerle.

    Since 1997 she has been First Solo Viola of the Kremerata Baltica – the prestigious chamber orchestra founded and led by violinist Gidon Kremer – with which she has played all over the World.

    She is First Viola of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Italian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, since 2010.

    Ula Ulijona has been awarded in many international contests, one of the most important being the “William Primrose” in Chicago. In Munich (Germany) she won the “Die tz-Rose für die Woche” prize, with the “Sonata for viola and piano” op. 147 by Dmitri Shostakovich.

    She has performed as a soloist with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow Soloists, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra , the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Konzerthaus Sinfonie Orchester, in famous venues and halls like the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Boston Symphony Hall and the Tokyo Suntory Concert Hall.

    Ula is giving regularly masterclasses for orchestral excerpts and viola repertuar at Music Institute by Vittorio Baravalle in Fossano. State Conervatory of Music by Arrigo Pedrollo in Vicenza, Conservatory of Music by Luca Marenzio in Brescia, Conservatory of Music by Giuseppe Nicolini in Piacenza and at Conservatory of Music by Giuseppe Verdi in Turin, Italy.

    Starting from 2021 Ula is viola professor at State Conservatory of Music by G. F. Ghedini in Cuneo, Italy.

    She is giving masterclasses also in many other Italian cities and abroad.

     

    Studierende

    Jelena Antić

    Maj Bommas

    Bella Chich

    Ukyo Fujiwara

    Franziska Hügel

    Brian Isaacs

    Arcan Isenkul

    Sophie Kiening

    Gordon Lau

    Sào Soulez Larivière

    Haesue Lee

    Natalie Loughran

    Eric Seohyun Moon

    Nicholas Swensen

    Ayaka Taniguchi

    Caspar Vinzens

    Luisa Ye

    Alumni

    Micha Afkham

    Guy Ben-Ziony

    Agathe Blondel

    Barbara Buntrock

    Öykü Canpolat

    Marie Chilemme

    Hélène Clément

    Toby Cook

    Lotus de Vries

    Valentin Eichler

    Miguel Erlich

    Karolina Errera Pavon

    Stefanie Farrands

    Sara Ferrandez Castro

    Alexander Gordon

    Olga Hansen

    Stine Hasbirk

    Gabriele Heinecke

    Miriam Helms Alien

    Kyuri Kim

    Sejune Kim

    Georgy Kovalev

    Anna Krimm

    Hande Küden

    Josip Kvetek

    Adrien la Marca

    S. Seungwon Lee

    Marion Leleu

    Anna Lewis

    Matthew Lipman

    Mark Liu

    Lev Loiko

    Ana Mba-Flores

    Ada Myriel Meinich

    Giovanni Menna

    Johannes Moehrle

    Sindy Mohamed

    Nilay Özdemir

    Kyoungmin Park

    Yael Patish

    Tahlia Petrosian

    Anna Puig Torne

    Madeleine Przybyl

    Muriel Razavi

    Alejandro Regueira

    Pauline Sachse

    Teresa Schwamm

    Jungahn Shin

    Clara-Hélène Stangorra

    Arnold Stieve

    Maya Tal

    Antoine Tamestit

    German Tcakulov

    Kei Tojo

    Ulla Tremuth

    Albin Uusijärvi

    Simone von Rahden

    Emma Wernig

    Judith Wijzenbeek

    Zhechao Xie

    Peijun Xu

    Armando Yagüe

    Ula U. Zebriunaite

    Sarina Zickgraf

    Ylvali Zilliacus

    Silas Zschocke