SUSANNE STANZELEIT

Susanne Stanzeleit studied with Leonid Kogan, Nathan Milstein, Vesselin Paraschkevov, Yfrah Neaman, Sándor Végh and György Kurtág, and she is now regularly invited to teach and give master-classes at all major British music colleges and summer schools. From 1993-2000 she was visiting lecturer of violin and chamber music at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, and between 2002 and 2006 Head of Strings at the London College of Music and Media. She now teaches at the London College of Music and Birmingham Conservatoire. Renowned as a soloist and chamber musician she has appeared at numerous British and international festivals, and is well known for her unusually challenging and extensive repertoire, featuring many commissions and British premières of works by leading contemporary composers. As first violin of the Werethina String Quartet for many years, she has won several prizes at international competitions, and between 1999 and 2002 was leader of the Edinburgh String Quartet. She is co-leader of Sinfonia 21, has served as guest leader of a number of orchestras and ensembles and collaborated with distinguished colleagues. She regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, German Radio and other major television and radio stations abroad. Her acclaimed commercial recordings include the complete violin music of Bartók, Enescu, Delius and Dvořák as well as Beethoven violin sonatas, works by Charles Camilleri and a series of English sonata recordings.