| Biography | Victoria Goldsmith was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in March 1991, and started playing the violin at age six and a half. She studied for a year at the pre-conservatoire Higher Music School in St. Petersburg, before moving to England in the summer of 1999. Victoria is a former pupil of the Yehudi Menuhin School, has studied privately in New York with Albert Markov, and until the summer of 2010 was a pupil at the Central Music School of Moscow State Conservatoire. She is at present a first year student at the Moscow State Conservatoire.
She has studied with Mark Messenger, Natasha Bayrskaya, Lydia Mordkovich, Albert Markov (in New York), Boris Brovtsyn, and currently with Professor Maya Glezarova in Moscow. Victoria won the Colchester Rotary Musician of the Year 2003 and Essex Young Musician of the Year 2004, was a finalist in the Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition 2004, semi-finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2006, and a finalist in the BBC2 Classical Star competition 2008. In 2009 she won the third prize at the Moscow International String Players Competition.
She has performed many times as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at venues including the Royal Albert Hall, the Cadogan Hall and St. Johns Smith Square, as well as at the Manhattan School, New York, and the Bolshoi Salle of Moscow State Conservatoire. During the summer of 2009 she performed as soloist with the Essex Youth Orchestra under Mark Messenger at three concerts in Brussels, playing Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccisoso. |