Julia Sakharova

Julia Sakharova (Russian: Юлия Сахарова; born c. 1980[1][2][3] in Moldova[4]) is a professional violinist. A native of Zheleznovodsk, Russia,[2][3][5] she debuted at the age of eight with the Moldova Symphony Orchestra.[4][6] Her mother is also a musician.[7] By the age of 11, she was already internationally known as a child prodigy due to her skills on the violin.[7][8] At the age of 15, she won the top prize in the International Competition for Music of Eastern and Central Europe; Vladimir Spivakov, the head of the jury, presented her with his bow in addition to the prize.[9] She attended Oberlin College,[10] graduating in 2003 with a major in violin performance; she studied under Milan Vitek while there.[2][3][5][11] That same year, she competed in the Concours International de Montréal des Jeunesses Musicales,[12] and won sixth prize.[13] In 2005, she visited Caracas, Venezuela to perform with the National Philharmonic Orchestra there.[4][6][14] She was Assistant Concertmaster of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra from 2008 to 2012.[10] In 2012, Sakharova joined the Arianna String Quartet which is on Residence at the University of Missouri St. Louis.[4][6][10][15] She is part of the Music Faculty as Associate Professor of Violin.[16][17][18] In 2024, Sakharova was appointed Concertmaster with Orchestra Iowa.[10]

Sakharova uses a violin that was made by Rafaelle and Antonio Gagliano in Naples in 1819.[1][17]

Education

Graduated from Moscow's Central Special Music School.[17] Graduated from Oberlin College in 2003, studying with Taras Gabora, Almita Vamos and Milan Vitek.[11] Received a master's degree from the Juilliard School in 2006, studying with Donald Weilerstein.[19]

Discography

  • 2001 — Rachmaninoff: The Élégiaque Piano Trios (Tavros Records) — with cellist Margrét Arnadóttir and pianist Yung Wook Yoo[20][21]
  • 2015 — Beethoven: The Early String Quartets, Opus 18 (Centaur Records) — as part of the Arianna String Quartet[22]
  • 2017 — Beethoven: The Middle Quartets (Centaur Records) — as part of the Arianna String Quartet[23]
  • 2023 — Beethoven: The Late Quartets (Centaur Records) — as part of the Arianna String Quartet[18][24]

References

  1. ^ a b Kaptainis, Arthur (30 May 2003). "Young competitors hit stratospheric heights: Talent pool is deep as Jeunesses Musicales Montreal International draws to close". (Montreal) Gazette. CanWest Interactive / Southam Publications / Postmedia Network. p. D4. ISSN 0384-1294. Factiva MTLG000020031220dz5u00to3. ProQuest 433937557. Julia Sakharova, 23, applied her innate Russian intensity and the big sound of an 18th century Gagliano violin [...]
  2. ^ a b c Janas, Marci (May 3, 2002). "Oberlin Conservatory of Music Violin Student Julia Sakharova Wins Koussevitzky Competition" (Press release). Oberlin College News Service. Archived from the original on 2017-05-22. Retrieved 2025-08-27. Violinist Julia Sakharova, a student of Professor of Violin Milan Vitek at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College [...] Sakharova, who is 22 years old and a native of Zheleznovodsk, Russia, is a junior violin performance major at Oberlin. She is concertmaster of the Oberlin Orchestra and a member of the Erato Quartet, which won the 2001 Coleman-Barstow Award for Strings. [...] Sakharova made her first recording, Russian Violin School, in 1997 on the Sony label. In 2001 she helped launch the Tavros record label with a recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Elegiaque Piano Trios. In 1998 Sakharova made her solo debut with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. In 1999, upon graduating from the Central Special Music School, she was accepted into the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She has participated in summer music festivals at Colmar in France, Baden-Baden in Germany, Oberlin at Casalmaggiore in Italy, the Weathersfield Music Festival in Vermont, and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. This year she will attend Kneisel Hall in Maine and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. While at Oberlin, Sakharova has been a finalist in the National Solo Competition sponsored by the Association of String Teachers of America and she appeared as soloist with the Oberlin Orchestra under the baton of composer John Williams in a concert held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
  3. ^ a b c Janas, Marci (April 2002). "(Oberlin Violinist Julia) Sakharova Wins Koussevitzky Competition". Backstage Pass. Oberlin online. Oberlin University. Archived from the original on 2002-11-10. Retrieved 2008-03-14. Violin performance major Julia Sakharova '03 has won first prize in the Musicians Club of New York's 47th Olga Koussevitzky Competition for Strings, held at the National Arts Club in New York City April 4, 5, and 8. [...] Sakharova, who is 22 years old and a native of Zheleznovodsk, Russia, studies with Milan Vitek, professor of violin. She is concertmaster of the Oberlin Orchestra and a member of the Erato Quartet, which won the 2001 Coleman-Barstow Award for Strings.
  4. ^ a b c d Gibson, Carla (Aug 20, 2012). "New member joins Arianna String Quartet for 2012-13 concert season". UMSL Daily. University Marketing and Communications, University of Missouri–St. Louis. Archived from the original on 2025-05-13. Retrieved 2025-08-27. Audiences taking in the Arianna String Quartet this fall will notice a new face among the group. There's a new member. Internationally acclaimed performer Julia Sakharova has joined the quartet as a second violinist, [...] She is a new assistant professor of music at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, of which the Arianna is the resident quartet. [...] Sakharova's appointment in the Arianna marks the conclusion of a yearlong international search. She has a distinguished 25-year career as a soloist, chamber musician, recitalist and orchestral performer. Most recently, she held the position of concertmaster with the Tupelo (Miss.) Symphony Orchestra and assistant concertmaster with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Birmingham. Sakharova was born in Moldova and raised in Russia. She made her solo orchestral debut at age eight with the Moldovan Philharmonic Orchestra. She moved to the United States, earned her master's degree from The Juilliard School in New York and has gone on to perform worldwide from New York's Carnegie Hall to Russia and on to western and southern Europe, Japan and Venezuela, where she made her South American solo debut with the Caracas Philharmonic Orchestra. The Arianna's upcoming 2012-13 season, will include a four-concert series at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at UMSL. The quartet will perform "Celebration" at 8 p.m. Sept. 7. The show is aptly titled, as it will be Sakharova's first performance with the Arianna and the quartet's first show of the season.
  5. ^ a b "bench MARKS : Kudos". news & NOTES. Strings. Vol. 17, no. 6. San Anselmo: String Letter Publishing. February–March 2003. pp. 12–15. ISSN 0888-3106. ProQuest 237169962. The 2002 CONCERTO COMPETITION has concluded, and four college seniors, selected from among the 16 finalists, have secured spots as soloists with the OBERLIN ORCHESTRA and OBERLIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA during the 2002-03 concert season. This year's winners include one violinist, JULIA SAKHAROVA of Zgeleznovodsk, Russia, who studies with professor of violin MILAN VITEK.
  6. ^ a b c Glushko, Anya (April 22, 2013). "ASQ welcomes new violinist". A&E. The Current: UMSL's independent student news. Vol. 46, no. 1407. University of Missouri - St. Louis. p. 5. Archived from the original on 2024-09-17. Retrieved 2025-08-27. Reproduced in: "Arianna String Quartet welcomes new violinist". University Wire. Carlsbad: UWIRE, a division of Uloop. ProQuest 2018320561. University of Missouri-St. Louis' Department of Music welcomed a new member to the Arianna String Quartet. Violinist Julia Sakharova performed in a recital with pianist Alla Voskoboynikova at the E. Desmond and Mary Ann Lee Theater of the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center on April 15 at 7:30 p.m. [...] Sakharova's musical genius was first recognized when she made her debut at the age of 8 with the Moldova Symphony Orchestra. After that, she performed throughout Russia, Western and Southern Europe, Japan, South America and the U.S. Sakharova won several international awards and competitions, among them the Jeunesses Musicales Montreal International Competition, the Olga Koussevitzky Award for Strings and the Juilliard and Oberlin Concerto Competitions. She played with Moscow State Orchestra, Caracas Philharmonic, the Iowa Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Sakharova holds three degrees in violin performance. She is currently a teacher and a mentor, and her students have won numerous awards and competitions, including the Lois Pickard Scholarship Competition with the Alabama Symphony and the American Protege International Piano and Strings Competition.
  7. ^ a b Bullard, Charles (21 April 1991). "As in a fairy tale, Iowans give hope to Soviet prodigy". The Des Moines Register. Des Moines, Iowa. pp. 1B, 4B. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  8. ^ Gasnick, Marge (30 April 1991). "Young violinist thanks Iowans". Iowa City Press-Citizen. Iowa City, Iowa. p. 1B. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Ted Kendall talks to young violinist Julia Sakharova", Music and Vision Daily, 2006-03-17, retrieved 2008-03-14
  10. ^ a b c d Nollen, Diana (10 March 2024). "Orchestra Iowa concertmaster embraces new role in Corridor music scene". The Gazette. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Tribune Publishing / Tribune Content Agency. Factiva KRTCR00020240310ek3a000gp. Retrieved 29 March 2024. A member of the music faculty at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Sakharova also performs with the internationally known Arianna String Quartet [...] Sakharova was assistant concertmaster with the Alabama Symphony from 2008 to 2012, so she's familiar with the role she's stepping into with Orchestra Iowa. [...] She performed the Sibelius Violin Concerto and Richard Strauss' "Death and Transfiguration" with Orchestra Iowa on Nov. 17, 2007, while a member of New York's Albany Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she also has taught master classes at the University of Iowa as part of an Arianna Quartet residency there. But more than 30 years ago, she forged lasting relationships with Cedar Rapidians who heard the child prodigy play in Russia, and in 1991 arranged for her to come to the UI for a medical procedure when she was 11. After three months, she and her mother, Marina, returned to Russia, where Julia resumed her studies and continued sweeping up top awards for her artistry in Russia, Europe, Japan, South American and the United States. [...] After graduating from Moscow's Central Music School in 1999, Sakharova enrolled in Ohio's Oberlin College, and in 2006, earned a master's from the Juilliard School in New York, then received a certificate for orchestral performance from the Manhattan School of Music.
  11. ^ a b "Honors and Appointments". The Instrumentalist. Vol. 57, no. 1. August 2002. p. 95. ISSN 0020-4331. Google Books YZ8JAQAAMAAJ, PTtLAAAAYAAJ. HathiTrust uva.x006161391, mdp.39015054346062.
  12. ^ Kaptainis, Arthur (30 May 2003). "Young competitors hit stratospheric heights". The Gazette. Montreal, Canada. p. D4. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  13. ^ Kaptainis, Arthur (5 June 2003). "Youth prevails in violin competition". The Gazette. Montreal, Canada. p. D3. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  14. ^ "Violinista rusa Julia Sakharova toca junto a la Orquesta Filarmónica", Unión Radio, 2005-04-21, retrieved 2008-03-14
  15. ^ Miller, Sarah Bryan (26 April 2015). "Most accomplished chamber music ensemble: Arianna String Quartet". The GO! Magazine List 2015 : THE ARTS. St Louis Post-Dispatch. St Louis, Missouri. p. K18. Factiva SLMO000020150430eb4q00001. Newspapers.com 148554748. The Arianna String Quartet — violinists [...] and Julia Sakharova, [...] — are longtime artists-in-residence at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
  16. ^ "Musical offerings". Eureka Times-Standard. Eureka, Calif.: MediaNews Group / Tribune Content Agency. 7 March 2024. Factiva KNCAEUR020240307ek370008e. Violinists [...] and Julia Sakharova, [...] of the Arianna String Quartet serve on the faculty at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as professors of their respective instruments.
  17. ^ a b c Dubins, Jerry (July–August 2013). "All Hail Arianna—An American Quartet Comes of Age". Fanfare: The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors. Vol. 36, no. 6. pp. 203–213 (see pp. 207, 209–210). ISSN 0148-9364. EBSCOhost 87600251. ProQuest 1441072815. Jerry: What are the instruments you play, and to what extent do you think the matching and blending of their voices contribute to your particular sound? [...] Julia: My violin is a Rafaelle and Antonio Gagliano made in 1819 in Naples. [...] Jerry: Correct me, if I'm wrong, but I believe all of you teach, coach, and mentor music students at the University of Missouri. [...] Julia: While we have full-time teaching positions at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, we also teach, coach, and give master classes across the U.S. and overseas. [...] I grew up in both the Soviet Union and later in Russia. At the age of six, I was admitted to what is known there as a Special Music School under Conservatory (first it was in Moldova, then in Moscow). I gave my first public performance at the age of seven, performing the Kabalevsky Violin Concerto with the orchestra. I entered and won many solo competitions throughout my childhood and started traveling around the age of nine giving concerts.
  18. ^ a b "WEEKLY RECAP: UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST LOUIS NEWS THIS PAST WEEK MAY 01, 2024 : UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST LOUIS ARIANNA STRING QUARTET GETTING HIGH MARKS FOR LATEST RELEASE, WHICH COMPLETES CYCLE OF BEETHOVEN QUARTETS". News Bites - Private Companies. Melbourne, Victoria: News Bites Pty Ltd. Source: Company Website. Created by www.buysellsignals.com. 2 May 2024. ProQuest 3049631415. The quartet, made up of UMSL faculty members Kurt Baldwin, John McGrosso, Joanna Mendoza and Julia Sakharova, released "Beethoven: The Late Quartets" in 2023. [...] The four-disc set, released last year, marks a milestone for [...] and Julia Sakharova, all members of the faculty in the Department of Music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. [...] The Arianna String Quartet has been working toward the completion of the cycle for a decade, and it constitutes more than nine hours of music, including the two-disc early quartets, the three-disc middle quartets and now the four-disc late quartets.
  19. ^ "Julia Sakharova: Violin". Arianna String Quartet. Archived from the original on 2018-03-29. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
  20. ^ Greenfield, Edward; Layton, Robert (2008). The Penguin Guide to Recorded Music (Revised ed.). Penguin. p. 989. ISBN 978-0-14-103335-8. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  21. ^ Sanderson, Blair. "Margrét Arnadóttir, Julia Sakharova, Yung Wook Yoo – Rachmaninoff: The Élégiaque Piano Trios". AllMusic Reviews. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  22. ^ "Arianna String Quartet – Beethoven: The Early String Quartets, Opus 18". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  23. ^ "Arianna String Quartet – Beethoven: The Middle Quartets". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  24. ^ Dubins, Jerry (March–April 2024). "BEETHOVEN String Quartets: No. 12 in E♭, op. 127; No. 13 in B♭, op. 130 (2 versions, with original and alternate endings); No. 14 in c♯, op. 131; No. 15 in a, op. 132; No. 16 in F, op. 135 • Arianna Str Qrt • CENTAUR 4014–4017 (232:42) Reviewed from a Wav download: 44.1 khz/16-bit". Fanfare: The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors. Vol. 47, no. 4. pp. 171–174. ISSN 0148-9364. EBSCOhost 175286805. ProQuest 2925246797. All of that said, this concludes the Arianna's survey of Beethoven's string quartets. I reviewed the group's early, op. 18, set of quartets in 39:1, and its set of the middle quartets—opp. 59/1–3), 74, and 95—in 41:4. [...] than the Arianna, which, since 2000, has been the quartet-in-residence at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. [...] Taken together with the ensemble's previous sets of the early and middle quartets, this, in my opinion, places the Arianna in the top tier of Beethoven string quartet cycles.
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