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Alda Dizdari
Alda Dizdari, is an Albanian born British violinist. Born in Tirana to a family of musicians (her father [|Limos Dizdari] being a well known composer and her mother Adriana Dizdari being a pianist) after her debut at Wigmore Hall Alda has appeared on many of the major concert venues in the UK and has been a regular guest on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 programmeshttps://www.gsmd.ac.uk/youth_adult_learning/junior_guildhall/junior_guildhall_staff/department/23-string-teaching-staff/872-alda-dizdari/.

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'Elgar's tour'
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In 2015 she started a tour promoting [|Edward Elgar]’s Violin Concerto in Eastern Europe including giving the premiere of this piece in her native country [|Albania] and in Romania where she has received a Bachelor Degree form the [|University of Bucharest]. She has recorded her journey in a book entitled "Kiss me Again"https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/a-gem-of-a-book-kiss-me-again-a-memoire-of-elgar-in-unusual-places-by-violinist-alda-dizdari-being-launched-at-a-cadogan-hall-concert-in-london-on-october-14th/, where she praises Elgar's music and describes her true love with his work. Praising her as "a brilliant Albanian violinist", Sir Noel Malcolm has written an article about Alda at The Sunday Times introducing her technique to a much broader public and calling her "a stunningly gifted violinist".

Biography
Alda studied in Romania with Romanian violinist Sherban Lupu, who taught at the University of Illinois. He was so impressed and he arranged a full scholarship for her there3. Then she moved to London to study with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. For almost two seasons, she was guest leader of the [|Allegri String Quartet]. In 2013 and 2014 she performed the complete works for the violin and piano by Beethoven and Brahms and has released three CDs, one of which recorded live from the Wigmore Hall.

Selected by the Gramophone Magazine as “One to Watch” musician in the May 2011 issue, she launched in July 2011 a Solo Violin Tour in the UK titled “In the Footsteps of BACH”, promoting her studio CD with the same programme. She performs regularly at all London’s prestigious halls including Southbank Centre and Cadogan Hall. In 2008 she performed Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Albanian Radio – Television Symphony Orchestra making their UK debut in Canterbury Cathedral in the presence of the Albanian Deputy Prime Minister. In 2006 she received her first nomination for “The Best Classical Musician of the Year” in her native Albania. In addition, as a devoted chamber musician she has been Guest Leader of Allegri String Quartet performing in all the major music festivals in the country, Leader of the Ensemble de la Chapelle St Mark, Luxembourg, as well as the founder of Chromatico Contemporary Ensemble and Competition1.

She has toured Europe with Ensemble Modern and Pierre Boulez.

Alongside her successful solo career Alda is a passionate teacher, currently teaching in two of the leading music schools in the country, the Purcell School and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is also the founder of DEA Music Academy, a community project in the borough of Southwark in London that helps children, some from disadvantaged backgrounds and with learning difficulties, achieve higher goals by offering‘A Conservatoire Tradition with a Community Feeling’2.