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Hanna

WORLD CLASS YOUNG ARTIST

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Hanna began studying violin in her native Belarus with Galina Goncharova, later moving to Saint-Petersburg where she graduated from the Special School of Music and the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. Hanna also received her bachelor’s degree as a Woodruff Scholar at the Schwob School of Music and continued her graduate studies in Los Angeles, playing with the VEM Ensemble- in-Residence at UCLA. Her teachers include Savely Shalman, Ilya Ioff, Sergiu Schwartz, Movses Pogossian, Varty Manouelian, Kirsten Yon. And currently Hanna is a student of Cho-Liang Lin pursuing her Master’s degree at the Rice University Shepherd School of Music.

Beginning

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Career

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Following her concert debut in Italy in 2009, Ms. Hrybkova has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at numerous venues in Belarus, Russia, Europe, and the United States. Hanna most recently appeared as a soloist with the UCLA Philharmonic performing on the legendary “Duke of Alcantara” Stradivarius violin from the UCLA collection, the Schwob Philharmonic, and the Georgia Philharmonic. Hanna regularly performs in different chamber ensembles and her engagements include performing with the UCLA VEM ensemble, that recently gave a West Coast concert tour and a CD recording (2022) featuring two world premieres by the Armenian composers Tigran Mansurian and Martin Ulikhanyan. Currently, Hanna is a Young Artist Fellow with the DACAMERA performing in various settings in Houston. Other performances include collaboration with the Concertmaster of the LA Philharmonic Martin Chalifour, violinist Boris Abramov, pianist Peter Takacs, and cellist Kyung Eun Choi.

Hanna participated in masterclasses and received mentorship from the esteemed violinists Martin Chalifour, Alexander Brussilovsky, Ian Repko, Grigory Kalinovsky, Sally O’Reilly, Movses Pogossian, and Dennis Kim.

Hanna is the First Prize winner of the Atlanta Music Club competition, the Second prize Winner of the Rudolf Barshai String Competition, the Silver Medalist of the Manhattan International Music Competition, the Winner of the “All-Star” Concerto competition; the Winner of 2017-18 and 2019-20 CSU/Schwob Conservatory of Music Concerto Competitions at River Center of the Performing Arts; and the Winner of the Samuel Fordis Young Artist Concerto Competition. Hanna was also awarded the scholarship from the Glazunov Foundation and received scholarships to participate in music festivals among which are the Summer Academy in Murren, Switzerland, and the Montecito Chamber Music Festival.

Besides performing solo and chamber, she has also held positions with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra (Columbus, GA), LaGrange Symphony Orchestra (LaGrange, GA), California Young Artist Symphony (Los Angeles, CA), and currently is a first violinist with the Symphony of Southeast Texas.

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“Violinist Hanna Hrybkova has established herself as a world class young artist who has a beautiful sound full of color and temperament suited to the vernacular of composers.“

- Paul Hostetter, an American conductor,
the Founder and Artistic Adviser to the Music Mondays chamber series in New York City

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