Introduction: Dr. Adelya Shagidullina is a prizewinning violist. Her numerous awards include top awards at the “Andrey Korsakov All Russian Music Competition”, “Eugen Coca International Music Competition”, and “Togliatti International Competition”, as well as the First Prize and Special Prize for the best performance of a commissioned work at the national “J.S.Bach Competition”. In November 2016, Dr. Shagidullina was announced the First Prize winner of the “American Protege International Competition”, and a winner of the prestigious “The American Prize Competition”. The former award won her an opportunity to give a solo performance in Carnegie Hall in December 2016. She returned to Carnegie Hall in June 2019 for a solo performance as a top winner of the LISMA International competition (August 2017). In May 2018 she became a winner of Beverly Hills National Auditions, which won her a concert tour in California, taking place in May of 2019.
From 2009 till 2015 Dr. Shagidullina was on the roster of iPalpiti Artists International, as well as a principal violist and a soloist of the iPalpiti Chamber Orchestra. She has performed in such venues as the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, among others. As an iPalpiti soloist, Dr. Shagidullina appeared in the “New York Benefactors Series” at the residence of Charles Avery Fisher, and was featured annually in “Sundays Live!” radio broadcast chamber concerts.
Dr. Adelya Shagidullina is an active solo, chamber, and orchestra musician, as well as a dedicated teacher. In 2014, she joined the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia for its American tour with Branford Marsalis, and continued performing with the orchestra since then. She appears in various chamber concert series, such as the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Bargemusic, Ltd., BCENY Concert evenings. Embassy concert series, and Candlelight Concert series. In May 2016 she was invited to join the Fine Art Music Company concert series and actively performs with the group ever since. Currently Dr. Adelya Shagidullina enjoys being a member of a newly formed Embassy Quartet and her new position of a violist in the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, which she won in September of 2022.
Dr. Shagidullina collaborated with such prominent musicians as Dmitry Berlinsky, Svetlana Smolina, Luiza Borac, Branford Marsalis, and Mark Peskanov, to name a few. She performed with such famous artists as Josh Groban and Boys II Men.
Over the past ten years, Adelya Shagidullina has taught extensively at both public and private institutions. Her teaching career started as a graduate teaching assistant at Temple Music Preparatory Division and teaching assistant in the studio of Professor Eduard Schmieder, and flourished into being a chamber coach at Temple University, a viola instructor and a chamber coach at the School of Mahanaim in Huntington, NY, and having a private violin and viol studio.
She was a member of the jury of a Tri-County Concerts Youth Festival auditions, and give master-classes at the ASTA Festival, Rowan University, and Gracias Music Festival at the School of Mahanaim.
During her years of study, Adelya Shagidullina has studied in the international studio of world-renowned professor Eduard Schmieder of Temple University’s Boyer College of Music, Daniel Avshalomov, viola professor at Manhattan School of Music and violist of the well-known American Quartet, and a Grammy-winner, Professor Lambert Orkis.
Since her years at the Boyer College, Adelya Shagidullina has served as a principle viola of the twice Grammy-nominated Temple University Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Shagidullina became a Doctor of Performing Arts, receiving her degree from Temple University in August 2019.
