Alina Pinchas

The violinist Alina Pinchas was born in 1988 in Uzbekistan and grew up in Vienna. At the age of just four she began her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Eugenia and Juri Polatschek. From 2005 to 2013 she continued her studies with Boris Kuschnir at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. In addition, between 2000 and 2005 she regularly attended masterclasses with Itzak Perlman in New York, supported by the Lauder Foundation.

Since 2013 she has been a member of the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and since 2016 she has been a member of the Vienna Philharmonic.

Over the course of her career, she has won numerous first prizes at international competitions, including the Concorso internationale di musica in Stresa and the Rovere d’óro in San Bartolomeo, Italy. She also was a Laureate of the Cziffra Foundation in Paris and received an annual scholarship from the Eliette and Herbert von Karajan Institute.

She was a member of the Junge Philharmonie Wien, and has performed with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta de València, the Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia.

Her first tours as a soloist were to America and China. She has also performed in Germany, France, Italy, Israel, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ukraine and Japan. In addition, she has appeared in live broadcasts for ORF and recorded several CDs with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine.