Alda Dizdari is an outstanding musician of immense diversity. Since her triumphant debut at the Wigmore Hall she has appeared on all the major concert venues in the UK and abroad and has been a regular guest on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 programmes.

In 2015 she embarked on a tour promoting Elgar’s Violin Concerto in Eastern Europe including giving the premiere in her native country Albania. She recorded her journey in a book: Kiss Me Again; A Memoir of Elgar in Unusual Places, which was released in 2018 and featured in The Sunday Times’ Culture Magazine.

In September 2019 she recorded the concerto in Moscow with Musica Viva Orchestra and conductor Alexander Walker. This recording is included in the audio book version released in 2020.

Over the past fifteen years she has released five highly acclaimed albums, one of which was recorded live from her debut at the Wigmore Hall.

Selected by Gramophone magazine in May 2011 as ‘One to Watch’, she made a Solo Violin Tour in the UK in July 2011 titled ‘In the Footsteps of BACH;’, promoting her studio album with the same programme.

In addition, as a devoted chamber musician she played as guest leader of Allegri String Quartet, leader of the Ensemble de la Chapelle St Mark, Luxembourg, as well as the founder of Chromatico Contemporary Ensemble and Competition. She has toured Europe with Ensemble Modern and Pierre Boulez.

Now a British citizen, Alda was born into a family of musicians and left her native Albania at an early age to pursue her career in music. She studied in Romania and received a degree from the University of Bucharest. She completed her Masters at the University of Illinois in USA and continued her Advanced Studies in London, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno, where she also held the prestigious Leverhulme String Fellowship for two years.

Alongside her successful solo career Alda is a passionate teacher, currently teaching at the Purcell School and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is also the founder of DEA Music Academy, a community project in the borough of Southwark in London that helps children achieve higher goals by offering ‘A Conservatoire Tradition with Community Feeling’.

Alda plays a GB Ceruti Violin, Cremona 1791 bought specially for her by a private sponsor and a Dominique Peccatte Bow on loan from The Stradivari Trust UK.