Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin)

‘Anna-Liisa Bezrodny is outstanding – technically brilliant and interpretatively virile. She is no mere performer: she is a real and true musician. Bezrodny’s performance was gripping and assured, over-arching and yet keenly responsive to the flickering shades and shadows of moods. Her playing is impassioned and has a surging pulse. Yet she has a clear head and is capable of coolly calculating her effects without losing spontaneity. When appropriate, she plays at white heat, thrillingly, combined with superb technique.’

Jessica Duchen

Anna-Liisa Bezrodny was born into a distinguished family of musicians in Moscow, growing up in Finland.  She is currently in great demand as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician all over the world, receiving brilliant and praising critiques of her performances. Moving to London via previous studies in Finland, in 2006 Anna-Liisa was awarded the most prestigious award of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Gold Medal, previously won by masters such as Bryn Terfel and Jacqueline du Pré.  She has appeared with many of the great European orchestras in recent years and, in recognition of her teaching and championing of Estonian music, was given an honorary Musician of the Year Award from the Estonian Cultural Foundation. 

Anna-Liisa is the Artistic Director of the Tallinn Chamber Music Festival, as well being Guest Concertmaster of the Estonian Sinfonietta. She currently plays on a Hieronymus II Amati violin from 1678, kindly on loan from the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Anna-Liisa’s future projects include playing the Bach Double Concerto with Nicola Benedetti, and a chamber music recording project with Maxim Vengerov for DECCA.