Corina Belcea

Larsen Strings for Violin

About Corina

Corina Belcea was born in Romania in 1975 and studied the violin with Radu Bozgan and Stefan Gheorghiu. At the age of 16 she was invited by Sir Yehudi Menuhin to study at his school in England where her teacher was Natalia Boyarskaya. She continued her studies at the Royal College of Music with Felix Andrievsky where, in 1994 she founded the Belcea quartet.

Corina is a prize winner at the Yehudi Menuhin, Kloster Schöntal and Wieniawski competitions and has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Queen Elisabeth Hall and Purcell Room in London, Atheneum Bucharest, Theatre des Châtelet and Champs-Élysée. Together with the Belcea quartet she has won the Bordeaux and the Osaka competitions.

Corina was professor of chamber music at the Guildhall school of music and drama in London and since 2011 she is Violin Professor at the University for the Arts in Bern. She has served on the jury for the ARD chamber music competition in Munich and the Queen Elisabeth violin competition in Brussels and has recently started coaching violin and chamber music at the Queen Elisabeth music Chapel.

This year she will be chairwoman of the Geneva International String Quartet competition. Recent solo performances include Brahms double concerto with her husband Antoine Lederlin and Warsaw Philharmonic and the Ysaÿe double sonata with Vilde Frang.

Larsen Strings for Violin

The Belcea Quartet

This boxed set of fifteen CDs brings together all the recordings made by the Belcea Quartet for Outhere Music. This anthology features benchmark performances of works by eight different composers, plus prestigious guests such as Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Till Fellner and Piotr Anderszewski. ‘Marked out from the beginning as a group of outstanding potential by its teachers, the Belcea Quartet has fully realised its early promise, rising to become one of the leading quartets of its time,’ writes Jean-Michel Molkhou in the booklet accompanying the set.