Antonina Tarasova (2007)

| Lithuania

Klaipėda Eduardas Balsys Gymnasium of Arts

Teacher Expert | Kristina Kupšienė

Accompanist | Nara Stepanyan

Antonina was born in Liepaja, in 2007, but currently lives in Lithuania. She started violin lessons at the age of four and is currently in the 11th grade at the E. Balsis Art Gymnasium in Klaipėda, where she studies with expert teacher Kristina Kupšienė. She is passionate violinist, who actively performs in competitions and festivals. She has studied with Pavel Berman, Zakhar Bron, Mikhail Kopelman, Vladimir Shulakovsky, Vadim Voiler, Domenico Nordio, Vilhelmas Čepinskis, Rusnė Mataitytė, Rūta Lipinaitytė-Savickienė, Dalia Dėdinskaitė, and other professionals. Her achievements include a diploma for the best performance of a Baroque piece at the III National Student and Pupil Concertmaster Piano Competition (Vilnius, 2019), grand prix at the IV Republican Music and Art School String Soloist Competition PERPETUUM MOBILE (Kaunas, 2021), 2nd prize at the VI J. Urba National String Competition (Vilnius, 2022), 3rd prize at the VI Sauliaus Sondeckis International Competition for Young String Musicians and Pianists (Šiauliai, 2022), 1st prize at the XII Raimundas Katiliaus Lithuanian Young Performers Competition (Vilnius, 2023), 1st prize at the II Republican Competition for Young Performers of Czech Music "Czech Paraphrases" (Vilnius, 2023). She is also a former participant of the Klaipėda Concert Hall (KKS) performance series "Orchestra of Playful Music", where she played with the KKS Chamber Orchestra (2022-2023), and in 2023 she was invited to the Kintai Music Festival, where she performed Mendelssohn Octet together with Dalia Dėdinskaitė, Gleb Pyšniak and Franck Standler.