Assia Weisman

Assia Weisman was born in 1996 in Geneva, Switzerland, and began taking violin lessons at the age of four from her mother, the concert violinist Julia Weisman. Even as a child, Assia won awards at various youth music competitions. From 2009 to 2011 she was a preparatory student at the Folkwang University of the Arts under Prof. Nana Jashvili, and also received violin instruction from Sergey Fatkulin.

In 2016, Assia was a national prize winner of the competition “Jugend musiziert” in the categories of violin and viola solo. At the follow-up competition “WESPE” in Münster, she received a special prize from the Hindemith Foundation for her performance of the Violin Concerto No. 1 of Dimitri Shostakovich as the best interpretation of a modern classical composition. Between 2016 and 2018, Assia studied viola at the Franz Liszt College of Music in Weimar with Prof. Erich Wolfgang Krüger, where she was a scholarship holder of the Live Music Now Weimar Foundation. She also continued her studies on the violin in Karlsruhe in the class of Prof. Josef Rissin, and since October 2020 has been at the College of Music and Dance in Cologne under Prof. Mikhail Ovrutsky. She has also received valuable artistic input from Prof. Christoph Poppen, Prof. Boris Garlitsky, and Aylen Pritchin.

Assia Weisman was selected for the Colluvio Chamber Academy in 2019 and 2021 and was a scholarship holder of the Brixen Classics Festival in the summers of 2021 and 2022. Also in 2022, she was awarded the Germany Scholarship and became a member of the Live Music Now Cologne Foundation.

Assia was able to gather orchestral experience with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra in 2022 and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in 2023. She has also appeared as soloist with the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie - Koblenz, the BrixenClassics Festival Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the TU Darmstadt, and the Confido Camerata, as well as the Youth Orchestra of the Tonhalle Düsseldorf.