Corina Belcea

Corina Belcea (born 1975) is a Romanian violinist, who studied and works in Britain.

Biography

She started violin lessons at the age of six. Her teachers in Romania were Radu Bozgan and Ştefan Gheorghiu. In 1991, she took part in the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists. Yehudi Menuhin then invited her to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School. Her teacher there was Natalia Boyarskaya. She continued her studies at the Royal College of Music. Her teacher there was Felix Andrievsky.

In 1994, while she was studying at the Royal College of Music she founded the Belcea Quartet.

Belcea plays a Stradivarius 1666 kindly lent by the family Beare.

Joint First Prize, Kloster Schöntal International Competition, Schöntal Abbey, Germany, 1990
Second Prize, Menuhin Competition, Folkestone, Great Britain. 1995
Second Prize, International Competition for Young Violinists in Honour of Karol Lipinski and Henryk Wieniawski, Lublin, Poland, 1994
First Prize, Bromsgrove Festival, 1997
LASMO Staffa Music Award, 1998

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