Alisa Margulis, who is renowned for her expressive and deeply emotional performances, appears regularly at major concert halls, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Centre, the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo, Sage Gateshead, the Tonhalle in Zurich and the St Petersburg Philharmonic Hall.
Born in Germany into a family of Russian musicians, Alissa Margulis studied in Cologne with Zakhar Bron, in Brussels with Augustin Dumay and in Vienna with Pavel Vernikov. She has won numerous prizes at international violin competitions and was awarded the European Arts Foundation’s «Pro Europa» prize, which was presented to her by Daniel Barenboim in Berlin.
She made her first public appearance at the age of seven with the Budapest Soloists and has since performed with numerous orchestras, including the English Chamber Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Île-de-France, the New Russia Orchestra, the «Giuseppe Verdi» Symphony Orchestra of Milan, the Orchestra of Italian Switzerland, the Bilkent Orchestra of Ankara, the Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Philharmonic Orchestras of Kyiv, Skopje, Ljubljana, Minsk and Novosibirsk, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Moscow Soloists and Kremerata Baltica, amongst many others.
Alissa Margulis has collaborated with renowned conductors: Ivor Bolton, Jacques Mercier, Arnold Katz, Jacek Kaspszyk, Dmitry Liss, Jaap van Zweden, Enrique Mazzola, Daniel Raiskin, Fabrice Bollon, Stefan Vladar, François-Xavier Roth, Lars Vogt, Howard Griffiths, Stanisław Kochanowski, Hubert Soudant, Yuri Basmet, Gidon Kremer, Christian Arming, Augustin Dumay, Mikko Franck and Gerd Albrecht, to name but a few.
As well as her career as a soloist, Alissa Margulis is a passionate chamber musician and collaborates with artists such as Alexander Buzlov, Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet, David Geringas, Ivry Gitlis, Gidon Kremer, Bruno Giuranna, Mischa Maisky, Gabriela Montero, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Liana Issakadze, Alexandre Tharaud, Stephen Kovacevich, Alexander Lonquich, Polina Leschenko, Paul Badura-Skoda and Lars Vogt.
She has also performed at various festivals: the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Davos, in Tours, at the Stravanger Festival, at the Salzburg Mozart Week, at the «Spannungen» Festival in Heimbach, at the «Progetto» Festival Martha Argerich Festival in Lugano, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Sochi Winter Arts Festival and the Verbier Festival.
Her discography comprises over twelve CDs on labels such as EMI Classics, Oehms, Novalis, Avanti Classic and CAvi. It is worth noting that two of the six releases in the «Martha Argerich and Friends» series by EMI Classics were nominated for a GRAMMY Award, whilst several others won the Diapason d’or award. She has recorded works by Mozart, Shostakovich, Enescu, Beethoven, Messiaen and others, as well as the complete works for violin and piano by Franz Liszt. She has recorded Piazzolla’s *The Seasons* and took part in a recording dedicated exclusively to klezmer alongside musicians such as Miriam Fuchs, Robby Lakatos, Evgeny Kissin, Polina Leshenko and Misha Maisky. Alissa Margulis will take part in another live recording of chamber music to be held as part of the Progetto Martha Argerich, a 2016 release on Warner Classics.
Last season, he gave concerts in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Greece, Russia, Luxembourg, Lebanon, South Africa, Aruba, Malta, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the USA, Italy and France, at venues including the Philharmonie de Paris, the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow and the Verbier Festival, amongst many others.