Lilia Slavny

  Lilia Slavny was born in Moscow. She started her music studies on the violin at the age of four, attending later The Moscow Music College, nr. the Piotr Tchaikovsky Conservatorium. In 1991 Lilia moved to Israel where she completed with honors her B.A. degree studies in modern and baroque violin, at The Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem under the supervision of Michael Kugel and Daniel Fradkin, and she also studied with Eliezer Bendersky. While living in Israel Lilia was an active member of The Jerusalem Consort olv David Shemer and of The Binyamin Quartet olv Daniel Fradkin; she has been also one of principal players of The Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra conducted and directed by David Shemer. In 2002 Lilia moved to Netherlands where she started her studies at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague in the class of Elizabeth Wallfish. During her musical career, she performed with many distinguished musicians such as James Bowman, Maggie Cole, Antonie Ruley, Shalev Ad-El, Ton Koopman, Alfredo Bernardini, Enrico Onofri, Philippe Jaroussky, Sandrine Piau, and many others. She had played in many leading early music festivals like Utrecht Early Music Festival, Bachfest Leipzig, Bodenseefestival, Breziče (Slovenia), Festival di Cremona, Donau Festwochen, Toujours Mozart Festival (Israel), Bach en Combrailles, Les Academies Musicales De Saintes, Magdeburg Telemann Festival, Internationale Barocktage Stift Melk, Festival La Chaise Dieu, Festival Poznan Baroque and others. She also took part in Itineraire Baroque festival organized by Ton Koopman where she participated in his chamber and orchestral music programs. Lilia Slavny proceeded with her research on baroque violin at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague, with Elizabeth Wallfish and Kati Debretzeni, in 2008 she graduated with distinction, receiving a Master of Music degree. Lilia took part in productions of the most well - known early music groups such as English Baroque Soloists, Harmonie Universelle, Gabrieli Consort and De Nederlandse Bachvereniging and Il Gardellino. She took part in the productions of Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra conducted by Ton Koopman and she is a permanent member of the Parisian orchestra Le Cercle de l’Harmonie olv Jeremie Rhorer, Apollo Ensemble (Netherlands), Ludovice Ensemble (Portugal), Ensemble Phoenix (Israel), RealCamara (Portugal), Ensemble Mezzo(Israel) and she is also one of concertmasters of Copenhagen Soloists orchestra based in Denmark. From 2014 Lilia started her collaboration with The King’s Consort olv Robert King, and between 2015 and 2019  - with Le Concert de la Loge which was founded in Paris by a well-known French violinist Julien Chauvin. 2018 Lilia was invited to be a part of the jury for auditions for the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. In August 2004, Lilia won the First Prize at the Second International Soloist Competition for Early Instruments in Schärding (Austria).