Galya Bisengalieva

Galya Bisengalieva, a gifted violinist of Kazakh origin was born into a musical family and began playing at the age of 5. She  graduated from the Royal Academy of Music under Gyorgy Pauk with First Class Honours. Since being awarded scholarships by the Musicians Benevolent Fund and St. Marylebone Education Foundation Galya has been studying for her Masters degree at  the Royal College of Music under Yossi Zivoni. Hailed for her dazzling and engaging platform manner, Galya has recently appeared as a soloist with orchestras in both Europe and Asia, performing concertos by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Bernstein and Bruch.  She is a deeply committed chamber and orchestral player, and has held the position of concertmaster in several orchestras, including the Symphony Orchestra of India, and the West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra. She has furthermore performed as concertmaster under the baton of such illustrious conductors as Sir Colin Davis and Vladimir Ashkenazy, and appears as both soloist and orchestral player on disk2disk, EMI, Sony BMG, and Tocatta Classics labels. Galya recently performed alongside Dmitry Sitkovetsky In a critically acclaimed performance of Mendelshon’s Octet and Dvorak’s String Trio. She plays on an Antonio Gagliano violin, and gratefully acknowledges its loan from Norman Rosenberg.