French–Dutch violinist Cosima Soulez Larivière has arrived in our rehearsal hall as we prepare for our upcoming sold-out concerts: on 25 January at the Liszt Academy of Music and on 26 January in Székesfehérvár.

Our first collaboration took place in 2017, when Cosima Soulez Larivière won the Bartók World Competition, and we later performed together again at the Kronberg Festival.

Born in Paris, she began her studies under Igor Volochine, and continued as a scholarship student at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Natasha Boyarsky. Since 2023, she has been studying with Mihaela Martin at the prestigious Kronberg Academy. As a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, she performs on a Giovanni Grancino violin made in Milan in 1675.

She has won numerous international competition prizes, including Third Prize at the Joseph Joachim Competition in Hanover and the Postacchini Competition in Fermo, as well as First Prize at the Brahms Competition in Pörtschach. She has appeared in major concert halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Wigmore Hall in London, and has performed in Singapore and Japan.

Alongside classical and Romantic repertoire, her programmes feature contemporary composers prominently, including Sofia Gubaidulina, Steve Reich, Rebecca Saunders, and Fazıl Say. Her brother, Sào Soulez Larivière, is also a musician and a violist.