Adelina Oprean, violin
Adelina Oprean, born in Deva (Romania), studied in Bucharest with Stefan Gheorghiu. At 19 she was already a successful violinist in Romania, Yugoslavia and the former German Democratic Republic. She also won a prize in a Bach contest in Leipzig and at a chamber music contest in Belgrade. At 22 she received permission from the state to travel to the Chamber music contests in Colmar and Geneva where she won a first prize and a silver medal.
Through personal mediation of Yehudi Menuhin, Adelina Oprean came to Switzerland and studied from 1979 to 1982 at the Menuhin Academy in Gstaad with Alberto Lysy, Yehudi Menuhin and afterwards on the Mozarteum Salzburg with Sandor Végh.
In 1981 Adelina Oprean won second prize at the Joachim Contest in Eisenstaedt and in 1982 first prize at the International Carl-Flesch Contest in London.
She played in most countries in Europe, USA and in South America with various orchestras for instance. the Royal Philharmonic, the London Mozart Players, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Camarata Lysy, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Bournemouth Sinfonietta and the European Community Chamber Orchestra. Adelina Oprean recorded among others Vivaldi's Four Seasons, the Violin Concert by Fioillo, Viotto and Haydn as well as Sonatas by Enesco for the Hyperion record label.
From 1982 t0 1986 Adelina Oprean was teaching at the Menuhin Academy in Gstaad and Sandor Végh's assistant on the Summer Course Lenk (Switzerland). She has taught at the Academy for Music in Basel since 1985. She has been violinist with the ARIA Quartette (Basel) since 1997 which is considered one of the leading quartettes in Switzerland.
Adelina Oprean plays a violin from Lorenzo Storioni,
